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I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

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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

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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking. ↗

— Alcaeus

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

— David Bohm

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It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise. ↗

— William Banting

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Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention. ↗

— Sophia Bush

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But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained. ↗

— Virgil

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Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

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Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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