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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from othersultimately, only God's opinion of us matters.
As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not always the same.
Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.
I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.
I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow
Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.
Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.
Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.
The wealth in many large estates has never been taxed because it is largely in the form of unrealized - therefore untaxed - capital gains.
I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
I'm dead, not impotent. Nasty rumors like that must be squashed before they gain momentum. Feel free to emphasize how very functional I am.
Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.
Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate.
The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.
Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.
When I moved to Los Angeles, my goal was to gain respect - whether it's in big or small projects - and as long as the work is good I'm happy.
I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing.
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.
I think if you had a capital-gains system where the long, patient capital would actually be rewarded, nanosecond capital turning would not be.
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.
We need to work together to strengthen protections for pre-existing conditions and improve upon the gains made under the ACA, not tear it down.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.
The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.
By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
The Clintons have sold everything about America and its policy and its future for their own personal gain in terms of amassing incredible wealth.
Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
Learn to overcome the imprinting that you now have and gain a new and higher imprinting that will lead you into the luminous spheres of awareness.
Certainly, you want to be liked, but as you gain confidence and experience you're more concerned with expressing yourself and what matters to you.
An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
A 1940 Gallup poll showed 83 percent of the public was against intervention. A good pretext was needed to gain support from an intransigent public.
If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.
Title IX is important. Women have made incredible gains in athletics, but does Brittney Griner have a chance in the post against Julius Randle? No.
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.
We don't serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted so we serve God. We don't follow Him in order to be loved; we are loved so we follow Him.
Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.