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“I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.”

Ifs Running Certain Walks Gains Machines Weight Work Out Get Over Neurotic

Author:Andie MacDowell

“Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.”

May Two Motivation Certain Liberty Easier Gains Constant Mindset Fuel Expenses Temporary Uncertain Chimneys

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.”

Certain Power Gains Avoidance Meditating Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.”

Ifs Mind Real Philosophy Lasts Certain Voice Challenges Views Attention Gains Mere Insight Theology Echoes Novelty Unprepared

Author:George Henry Lewes

“Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.”

Ifs Way War Ends Certain Fighting Gone Victory Gains Forgotten Objectives Remove Obstruction

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.”

Thinking Needs Certain Waiting Amount Balance Gains Mysticism Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life.”

Way Want Certain Gains Decided

Author:Willi Smith

“First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Certain My Own Ability Secret Goes On Essentials Gains Calm Requirements Peace Within Stay Calm

Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.”

Ifs Knows Way Humans Hard Certain Evil Liberty Special Return Gains Ideals Response Strikes Firm Retreat Always Believe Great Idea Audacity Human Freedom

Author:George W. Bush

“I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.”

Thinking Mind Humans Age Certain Loses Human Beings Nice Wonderful Acceptance Youth Gains Fairs Peace Of Mind Stamina

Author:Cherie Lunghi