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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."

"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."

"While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain."

"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."

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

"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."

"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
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"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."

"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."

"Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot."

"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions."

"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."
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