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Gain Quotes
"So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win."
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"By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches."
"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."
"I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage."
Gain,
"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."
"I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation."
"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."
"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."
Gain,
"Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint."
"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."
"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."
"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."
Gain,
"We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation."
"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."
"Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders)."
"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."
"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."
"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."
"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."
"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."
"Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain."
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."
"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
"I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism."
"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."
Gain,
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