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

Suzanne Somers, American Actress

Gain, Now, Water

"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

Gain, Job, Majority, Nothing

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

Hesiod, Greek Poet

Gain, Ruin

"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

Gain, Party

"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

Gain, Loss, Practice, Suffering

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

Joe Theismann, American Athlete

Gain,

"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

"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

Gain, Trouble, Will, Worth

"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

Gain, Man, Moon, Ships

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

Euripides, Greek Poet

Gain, Ignorance

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"People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?"

Technology

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

Computer

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

Will

"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."

Act

"The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people."

Government

"There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives."

Technology

"Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die."

Life

"Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle."

People

"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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