Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.
David Tudor

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?
Anthony Edwards

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.
Thomas Kretschmann

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald Reagan

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.
Lefty Gomez

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
Renee Fleming

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.
Suzanne Somers

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Johannes Tauler

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.
Edie Falco

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.
George Crabbe

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
Roger Moore

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
Thomas Jane