"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."

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"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

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"Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention."

Suzanne Somers, American Actress

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"FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain."

Arthur C. Brooks, American Author

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"Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

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"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

Milton Friedman, American Economist

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"But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago."

Merton Miller, American Economist

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"I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage."

Joe Theismann, American Athlete

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"A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers."

James Larkin, Irish Activist

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"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons."

Tom Clancy, American Novelist

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"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."

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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

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"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."

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"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."

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"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."

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"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."

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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."

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"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."

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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

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"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men."

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