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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name.
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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
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Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency.
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Nothing risque, nothing gained.
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A study can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
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What we ought be, we can be.
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Give them love; gi...
NAS KIRIAKOS Be generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
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CRAIG WRIGHT Take time: much may be gained by patience.
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Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.
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b...
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LORD CHESTERFIELD I'd like to see them use the experience they've gained and be aggressive.
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SARAH HALL . . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an indivi...
BEATRICE HINKLE I'm not optimistic we can somehow diplomatically get them to give them up.
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What if I am all to see?
What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?
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Studying means 10% reading and 90% complaining to your friends that you have to study.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up... 
There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that. 
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. 
Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name. 
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. 
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. 
Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency. 
Nothing risque, nothing gained. 
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained 
Nothing ventured, nothing gained 
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. 
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing t... 
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the... 
Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind.... 
Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writ... 
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founde... 
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous. 
Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by liv... 
Recording in Jamaica is like nothing else. The studios are always closed in America. But in Jamaica,... 
I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work. 
A study can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea. 
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re... 
What we ought be, we can be. 
Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in... 
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will... 
In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, w... 
Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father. 
What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong K... 
Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is tha... 
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them ou... 
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv... 
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv... 
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo... 
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo... 
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo... 
If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music. 
The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can ... 
We're trying to get some movement going, to appeal to the kidnappers and make them understand there'... 
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be livin... 
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living ... 
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and ... 
A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society; a non-reading nation will be nothing but a... 
Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immedi... 
Studying means 10% reading and 90% complaining to your friends that you have to study. 
Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves. 
There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached ... 
Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddh...