"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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"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

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

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

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,

"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

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

Peter Mandelson, British Politician

Gain, Open, Trade

"I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism."

Marc Wallice, American Actor

Gain, Weight

"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."

Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier

Gain, Listening, Observation, Occupation

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

Life

"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

"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

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

Innovation

"The good old days are now."

Now

"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

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

Difference

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

Creativity

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

Will

"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