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“A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.”

People Ifs Giving Years Actors Winning Roles Successful Five Drama Six Gains Weight Credit Oscars Sitcom

Author:Mike O'Malley

“Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.”

Mind Kind Reason Hands Winning Youth Gains Pity Fancy Woe Reins Contemplative

Book:The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

Source: The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

“It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which they can influence, with more importunity of solicitation to adopt their opinions. In proportion as they doubt the truth of their own doctrines, they are desirous to gain the attestation of another understanding: and industriously labour to win a proselyte, and eagerly catch at the slightest pretense to dignify their sect with a distinguished name.”

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must win and hold the voluntary adherence of its members. No pattern is imposed on everyone, and the result will be one pattern if and only if everyone voluntarily chooses to live in accordance with that pattern of community.”

Ifs Winning Community Results Struggle Members Gains Patterns Abandoned Elsewhere Splits Ifs And Adherence

Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You may think to gain favor and influence with the unsaved by joining with them in the lodge, or attending with them the movies, or by smoking or drinking or playing bridge with them, but you cannot! Worldliness means powerlessness! And that means that every Christian who sells out is guilty of the murder of the poor lost souls that go to Hell because he lost his influence.”

“I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.”

Thinking Important Games Winning Enjoy Loses Losing Gains Chess Cards Tennis Winning And Losing

Author:Hilary Swank

“Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.”

Humans Humanity Winning Human Beings Class Rights Middle Gains Bases Property Titles Middle Class Working Class Liberating

Book:Marx: A Very Short Introduction

Source: Marx: A Very Short Introduction

“Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition andcooperation, between fair play and justice and exploitation and abuse of these for personal gain. It helps them learn to manage the warmth of winning and the hurt of losing; it helps them to believe that there will be another chance to win the next time.”

Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

“We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.”

Knows Winning Sides Loses Economic Modern Waste Gains Destruction Scales Warfare Win Or Lose Modern Warfare

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.”

Winning Sports Gains Vote Election

Author:Imran Khan

“I invite all to trust in the merits and in the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Through His atoning sacrifice, we can gain the courage to win all the wars of our time, even in the midst of our difficulties, challenges, and temptations. Let us trust in His #‎ love and power to save.”

War Jesus Winning Christ Challenges Sacrifice Gains Jesus Christ Difficulty Temptation Merit Our Time Midst Invites His Love Atonement

Author:Ulisses Soares

“A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as great presumption to send our passions upon God's errands, as to palliate them with God's name... We are too ready to retailiate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us try then what Love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.”

Ifs Men Should Trying Firsts Believe May Mean Ends Passion Evil Winning Names Force Hurt Information Ready Gains Forgiving Harm Presumption Laurels Believe In Love Sanctify Errands

Author:William Penn

“What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.”

Mean Law Order Turns Winning Practice Politician Gains Vote Property Campaigns Contribution Domain Campaign Contributions Eminent Domain

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis. Let's also be clear: Our problems in Iraq have not been caused by one man, and this is a moment when the administration can and must launch a major effort to gain international support and win the peace.”

Men Important Moments Problem Winning Effort Steps Support Clear Return Majors Gains International Iraq Administration One Man Brutal Dictator Saddam Hussein

Author:John F. Kerry

“There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.”

“After the confetti is swept and the champagne bottles are tossed a more sober reality will take hold. Not just that her net gain of delegates this week will be, at most, in the single digits. But worse. There is no plausible scenario in which Clinton can win the nomination. At least not democratically.”

Reality Winning Week Gains Clinton Bottles Sober Scenarios Champagne Nominations Plausible Delegates Confetti

Author:Marc Cooper

“Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.”

Feels Wells Reason Winning Loses Democracy Exercise Gains Upset Loser Restraint

Author:David Frum

“In Japanese society, the competitiveness is within a traditional respecting framework. The Japanese will not compete if that competition involves violence or if it is a zero sum gain - if you win, someone has to lose.”

Ifs Winning Loses Violence Gains Competition Traditional Zero Framework Competitiveness

Author:Shinobu Yaguchi

“Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.”

Men Winning Given Sports Honor Battle Gains Masculinity

Book:The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

“Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.”

Firsts May Winning Force Forgiveness Gains Forgiving Laurels Quaker

Book:The Select Works of William Penn....

Source: The Select Works of William Penn....

“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”

Ifs Life War Fighting Winning Battle Gains Discernment Fighting Battles Winning Losing I Will Win Fighting To Win

Author:Erwin Rommel

“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?”

Ifs Dream Joy Winning Week Minutes Sweet Gains Destruction Eternity Breaths Sells Toys Crowns Fleeting Beggar Grapes Vines Mirth

Author:William Shakespeare

“When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.”

Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved

“A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us, then, try what love will do: for if men do once see that we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but love gains; and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.”

Love Firsts May Mean Ends Might Evil Winning Force Peace Information Ready Gains Forgiving Ubuntu Laurels Sanctify

Author:William Penn

“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.”

Source: CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]

“It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses they put themselves in position to make large gains.”

People Ifs May Games Winning Loses Chance Loss Accepting Risk Possibility Position Willing Lucky Losing Gains Take A Chance

Book:The Luck Factor: Why Some People Are Luckier Than Others and How You Can Become One of Them

Source: The Luck Factor: Why Some People Are Luckier Than Others and How You Can Become One of Them

“You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?”

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

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