"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

Gain, Politeness

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"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

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"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation."

Peter Mandelson, British Politician

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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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"Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole."

Margaret J. Wheatley, American Writer

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"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations."

Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian Public Servant

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"Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain."

George Crabbe, English Poet

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"He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense."

Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet

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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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"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

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"Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb."

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"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."

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"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined."

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"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."

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