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

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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

Gain, Nations, Respect, United

"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."

Francis Maude, British Politician

Gain, Support

"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

Gain, Present, Satisfaction, Workers

"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."

Andre Agassi, American Athlete

Gain,

"Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders)."

Thomas E. Mann, American Sociologist

Gain, Party, Risk

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

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

Gain,

"By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

Gain,

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Gain,

"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

Gain, Loss, Sales

"The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Gain,

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"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."

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"Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at."

Man

"Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return."

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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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"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."

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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."

"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."

"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."

"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."

"Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders)."

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

"By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose."

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

"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

"The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain."

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"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."

"Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at."

"Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return."

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

"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."

"It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."

"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."

"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."