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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Humanity, Reason, Oppression

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything, Else, Lose

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle

Fear, Philosophy, Law

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Him, Against

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby

Business, Wisdom, Mistakes

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Good, Evil, Hatred

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Pleasure, Useless

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Voltaire

Men, Hate, Nothing

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud

Until, Rest, Voice

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James

Men, Before, Lives

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Pat Paulsen

Control, Country, Around

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Health, Men

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Often, Spend

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Character, Children, Parents

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller

Learning, Lost, Books

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
Sophocles

Through, Fraud, Secure

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
James Madison

Alone, Humanity, Reason

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Sallust

Envy, Honesty, Won

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer

Happiness, Unexpected, Bring

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
David Bohm

Knowledge, Important, Ability

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
Hannah Arendt

Revolution, Become, Matter

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.
Christina Aguilera

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux

Experience, Wisdom, Lost

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Dag Hammarskjold

Life, Giving, Living

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Time, Political, American

I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience.
Brian Harvey

Time, Experience, Through

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

Nothing, Venture, Belongs

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
Ralph Fiennes

Reading, Shanghai

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.
Eric Clapton

Quite, Status, Rare

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