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Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own

As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on coloniz­ing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual concerned. Each of us should have the right to speak his thoughts and to hear the thoughts of others.

As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

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.

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

A true leader doesn't lead to gain power. They lead to empower and give power away.

As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.

A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.

A woman has to demonstrate in every moment to be thirty times better than a man, to gain trust and to be considered. So, she has to be tenacious, combattative but not aggressive, she has to love her work a lot and not let herself be discouraged by the daily discriminiation she encounters.

Because the math is, if you - 5 percent of a million is a lot more than 5 percent of a thousand. So yeah, someone who makes more money, numerically, it's gonna be higher. But the greatest gains, percentage-wise, for people, are gonna be at the lower end of our plan.

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

Audiences, as they get smaller, can intensify their relationship with the product, and so can the creative relationship with the people that you are serving. The good news is that, the more shows there are, the less the conglomerates have to gain by breaking the will of each individual creative.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

But... when I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave it's mark - on both of you. I'm not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can't blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn't let me escape the consequences.

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

Business, endorsements and things of that nature, I got into it kinda naturally. Those ventures materialised as a direct result of things that I was actually doing; all the partnerships have been organic and not necessarily etched out plans for monetary gain.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

By releasing control over circumstances, you gain more control over your life.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

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.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

Choose to obey the Lord quickly, always, in quiet times and in storms. As we do, our faith will be strengthened, we will find peace in this life, and we will gain the assurance that we and our families can qualify for eternal life in the world to come.

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

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.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.