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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.
Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.
What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.
No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.
With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.
I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.
My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.
The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
We need to cut the capital gains tax; we need to take regulations off the backs of business and allow banks to once again lend.
I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain.
The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.
My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.
I don't think there's too many Aboriginal people out there who are successful that don't want to help make gains for our people.
Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.
Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.
The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe.
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.
It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
...even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain, And follows but for form, Will pack, when it begins to rain, And leave thee in a storm.
We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.
You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.
There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.
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.
Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
I feel comfortable, I'm definitely feeling challenged but with each day I gain more experience. I'm just trying to improve each day.
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.
A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.
You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.
Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.
We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.
If you can stay back, you can wait an extra split-second longer, and then you become more relaxed, and that's when you gain confidence.
If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.