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“A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.”

Looks Faces Loss Equal Gains Revelations Sincere

Author:David Whyte

“In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.”

Loss Race Equal Gains Claims

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“The determination of the value of an item must not be based on its price, but rather on the utility it yields. The price of the item is dependent only on the thing itself and is equal for everyone; the utility, however, is dependent on the particular circumstances of the person making the estimate. Thus there is no doubt that a gain of one thousand ducats is more significant to a pauper than to a rich man though both gain the same amount.”

Men Persons Values Money Rich Doubt Particular Amount Circumstances Thousand Equal Gains Determination Significant No Doubt Dependent Yield Items Utility Rich Man

Author:Daniel Bernoulli

“Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best qualities are the result of a struggle whose outcome is tragic. Yet he is a creature of love.”

“To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.”

Ifs Happens Jobs Education Theory Citizens Equal Gains Majority Access Treated Revolutionary Decent Killers Ideologues

Author:Ian Buruma

“The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.”

World Giving Firsts Law Values Lost Return Equal Gains Humankind Alchemy Alchemist Anime Fma

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to lose weight - or gain it. I'm just being.”

Trying Stuff Loses Amount Healthy Equal Gains Weight Just Being Craving Junk Lose Weight

Author:Kelly Clarkson