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My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.
The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]
The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.
I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.
It is necessary to do a systems analysis of your life. Look at where you gain power and where you lose power.
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".
Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.
If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.
And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.
Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.
A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.
Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.
Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.
Always keep in mind that poker is about limiting your losses and maximizing your gains on every hand you play.
Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.
Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly.
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.
We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.
If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.
I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment.
Learn spiritual sciences, to recognize God and gain access to Him, no matter what religion or sect you belong to!
The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it.
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.
It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.
We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.
I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.
Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'
The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.
Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche
Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.
The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
U.S. stocks did not recoil from Trump's electoral victory, instead setting a record for election-to-year-end gains.
It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.
The psychic world is a dimensional plane that you can gain access to. It is a dimension of feeling and clear seeing.
Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.
You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.
Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.