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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. Roland Barthes | top
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. Daniel Boone | top
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It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams. Paul D. Boyer | top
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It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science. James H. Breasted | top
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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 | top
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai. Ralph Fiennes | top
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. Thomas Fuller | top
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. Maggie Gallagher | top
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We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. Paul Hawken | top
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. William James | top
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I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation. Star Jones | top
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Edward V. Lucas | top
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When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting! Bob Mould | top
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. Pat Paulsen | top
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No ground gained was ever relinquished. Matthew B. Ridgway | top
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The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches. Joseph Franklin Rutherford | top
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry! Pat Sajak | top
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At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in. Brooke Shields | top
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All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror. John Shimkus | top
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Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston. Joshua Slocum | top
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure. Sophocles | top
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But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained. Virgil | top
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. Voltaire | top
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I feel good now. I've gained all my weight back after getting stoned for three weeks and not eating and not sleeping much. I've been coming by my mom's and eating food. Marc Wallice | top
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Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. Duke of Wellington | top