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«One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
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adversity, gains, Obstacles, overcome, overcoming, possesses
«The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
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access, celebrity, efficiency, fetish, fetishes, gains, gain ground, ground ball, holes, hole in the ground, knock, President of, President of the, President of the United, President of the United States, small white, social system, social systems, thereby, The Professional, The Star, to the point
«The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.»
«So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces»
«The one who has faith, and is sincere, and has mastery over the senses, gains this knowledge. Having gained this, one at once attains the supreme peace.»
«No gains without pains.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Pain
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gains, pains
«Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains / except kill it.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
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gains, loses, modern, moderns, modern man, quickly
«One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.»
Author: Horace
(Poet)
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agreeable, applause, delighting, gains, instructing, mingles, mingling, reader