"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."

Gain, Loss, Right, Vietnam

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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."

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

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

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"We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."

George W. Bush, American President

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American 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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"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

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"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."

Victoria Abril, Spanish Actress

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"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

George Herbert, British Poet

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"Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million."

Ted Turner, American Businessman

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

Josh Billings, American Comedian

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"Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"

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"Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed."

Creativity

"Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act."

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"Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that."

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"No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it."

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"The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that."

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"America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information."

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"The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us."

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"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."

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"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

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