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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.


Blaise Pascal

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WAYNE J. KEELEY What you gain here, you lose on the other side.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It's a great example of how you can lose it all for everyone if you set out to gain an extra cent fo...
LARRY KENSWIL When you lose your job, you gain ownership of your life
SUNDAY ADELAJA If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
W. CLEMENT STONE It is unwise to lose what you could gain
SUMDAY ADELAJA Your Actions Well Determine Whether You Lose or Gain
PETE TKACHEV Letting go becomes easier, when you see not what you lose, but all that you gain, in creating space ...
RENATE VULLINGS Sometimes you have to lose what you have in order to gain what you need.
KATIE KACVINSKY There is a trade off -- as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
KENNY ROGERS There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
KENNY ROGERS For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you los...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you los...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you l...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What is a man advantaged if he gain the whole world and lose himself
SUNDAY ADELAJA A hero is not someone who does something courageous when he has nothing to lose and something to gai...
ARTHUR FORMAN The fear of losing something makes you weak, lose it and gain your strength
DR FARID IBRAHIM I’m really tired of people saying what is lost in translation. Look at what you gain. You gain thr...
ARSHIA SATTAR It's surprising how much free time and productivity you gain when you lose the busyness in your mind...
BRITTANY BURGUNDER If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the ot...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the ot...
SAINT AUGUSTINE If you have nothing to lose, you can try everything
YIDDISH PROVERB Take care, lest you lose a male who'll desire only you - and gain a male who'll desire only others.
KRESLEY COLE What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
ANDRE AGASSI If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on th...
SAINT AUGUSTINE If you lose your temper, you lose!
RICHARD DIAZ Life is good. We have nothing to lose. What do we really gain after all.
EPHDAN If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING If some things don’t make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING If you lose a man because you thought the best but were all wrong, then that's his fault. If you los...
JENNIFER BLAKE If you want to give, you walk If you want to gain, you drive
APURVA GAGLANI If you later lose your coverage, you can enroll without a penalty.
ALAN HEUMANN WHEN ONE HAS NOTHING TO LOSE ONE HAS EVERYTHING TO GAIN !
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BILL JAMES If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
JESSE JACKSON For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
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EUGENE V. DEBS Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.
PHYLLIS GEORGE To gain height, lose all your tall friends.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA If you indulge yourself one day, you can eat more healthfully the next. To the degree you move in a ...
DEAN ORNISH You may lose paradise, but gain heaven when you rise up and repent. The success that comes after a t...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you want to gain, give.
DR. BILL RAMOS You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
JOAN JETT Updates are low quality if we lose more contacts than we gain. It's over posting if all we get is ex...
DAVID CHILES You really shouldn’t trust a soul in this game. Not when everyone has something to gain or lose.
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
BIBLE If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to dist...
MARILYN MANSON You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.
JOAN JETT When you reach illumination, you lose paradise. Illumination is the place where you gain knowledge t...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.
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SOURAV GANGULY It doesn't matter if you win or lose until you lose.
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BENJAMIN TAL If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gai...
LA INDIA If you want to do something, go for it -you've got nothing to lose.
LOUIS TOMLINSON What is does a person profit if they gain the whole world and lose their soul.
BIBLE If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
CLARENCE DARROW If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you kno...
VENUS WILLIAMS Our ignorance means we must follow the course prescribed by Pascal in his famous wager about the exi...
WARREN BUFFETT Worst case scenario, you can lose $5 and gain from the experience and invest more wisely when it's r...
ADAM BLAKE If you can cope the pride when winning, then you can confront despair when lose.
TOBA BETA Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yours...
JERRY SPINELLI He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
JIM ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
JIM ELLIOT She's mine. And if any of you lay a hand on her, you lose that hand. And then lose your head. And on...
SARAH J. MAAS When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing...
JOHN KUYPERS If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
BERTOLT BRECHT If you trust them and love them, you will lose yourself; If you trust yourself and love yourself, yo...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES If after giving it all that you possibly can, you do lose to the competition, then they really deser...
NABIL N. JAMAL A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It'...
CHUCK CLOSE If I do a role where I have to lose weight, I can do that. I eat meat, fish, vegetables, and I lose ...
MONICA BELLUCCI The nice thing about going into that game is we have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
DAVE KRUSZEWSKI In the end no one is the winner in war cause you lose more than what you gain no matter what but som...
ANDY STEWART If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be,...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in th...
GENE MAUCH Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.
HARVEY PENICK If you can cope the pride when winning,
then you can confront despair when lose.
TOBA BETA Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
GEORGE HERBERT Sometimes the best gain is to lose
GEORGE HERBERT White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain...
BILLY GIBBONS To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf becau...
HARRY VARDON Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in th...
GENE MAUCH If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my p...
ANTHONY HOPKINS We know that if you lose, you go home now. It's not lose and go look at it on film. If you lose, the...
COREY BREWER When they bet on the wrong person and lose, they do lose a little clout. If you're going to use your...
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ARTIE BARTHOLOMEW i’m afraid i’ll lose you if i share all that’s real.
i’m afraid i’ll lose myself if i...
SCOTT STABILE This is a scary game when a team comes in with nothing to lose and everything to gain. We've got the...
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BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 What does this desire and this inability of our...
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