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Intentional forgetfulness allows the imperfect lantern of the mind to cast new shadows, guiding us onto unexpected paths.
Author:
amorilus hopepathr
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In the muted strength of perseverance, the soul speaks vibrations beyond mere words, unraveling Paolo of reserves many don't dare fathom.
Author:
Ava Molina
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Like shooting stars that burn bright and fade, fleeting friendships illuminate our lives for only a moment, reminding us of the beauty nestled in transience.
Author:
Aurora Jennings
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Within the quiet gaps of history, where voices are muffled and dust settles gently, lies a deeper wisdom that speaks sometimes louder than accomplishments--a whisper to remind us what unacknowledged struggles once stirred.
Author:
Eleanor Szyc
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In the sanctuary of unclaimed spaces, potential dances with melancholia; their edges shimmer with moments unrealized yet pregnant with whispers.
Author:
Alina IBrammel
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In the gentle unfurling of quiet spaces, we rediscover undisturbed depths within ourselves--where angelic whispers beckon fragile truths into bloom.
Author:
Evelyn Carlos
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Just as footprints washed away by raindrops obscure once vibrant paths, in the torrent of bytes swirling across insatiable screens, our true identities spill into oblivion.
Author:
Helena Storey
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Time is a thief that only takes what's most precious to us.
Author:
Samantha White
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Life's greatest irony is that we often don't appreciate what we have until it's gone
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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That which is loved is never lost.
Author:
Natasha Gordon
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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
Author:
Mary Wortley
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
Author:
E. Wilson
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I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything.
Author:
Michelle Williams
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I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.
Author:
Jason Williams
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Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.
Author:
Gilbert White
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Author:
Jack Welch
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
Author:
Rachel Weisz
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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Author:
Voltaire
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Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.
Author:
William Vickrey
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
Author:
Paul Valery
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The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
Author:
Franjo Tudjman
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Author:
Thucydides
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No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
Author:
Ellen Terry
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The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.
Author:
Peter Stuyvesant
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Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
Author:
Bruce Springsteen
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My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
Author:
Catherine Spence
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The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Author:
Robert Southey
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I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
Author:
Georg Solti
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I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.
Author:
Todd Solondz
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Author:
Edith Sitwell
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There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Author:
Alan Simpson
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What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.
Author:
Don Shula
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When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
Author:
Andrew Shue
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Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?
Author:
Andrew Shue
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I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.
Author:
Harry Shearer
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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
Author:
Hjalmar Schacht
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
Author:
May Sarton
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I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.
Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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I have to constantly remind myself that I am communicating with a person with hearing loss.
Author:
Marion Ross
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Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
Author:
Marion Ross
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Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.
Author:
Marion Ross
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The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.
Author:
Marion Ross
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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
Author:
Knute Rockne
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Author:
Pat Riley
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I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.
Author:
Bridget Riley
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The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
Author:
Sally Ride
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Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
Author:
Jules Renard
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The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.
Author:
George Reisman
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At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
Author:
Dave Reichert
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I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author:
Dave Reichert
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I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
Author:
Dave Reichert
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My work has typically been about finding a means to express memory and commemoration for loss and grief.
Author:
John Regan
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There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
Author:
Lou Reed
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The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
Author:
Dennis Potter
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Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
Author:
Pol Pot
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And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!
Author:
Harry Pollitt
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One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Author:
Mary Pickford
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The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
Author:
Anne Perry
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Author:
Walker Percy
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I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
Author:
Nancy Pelosi
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Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.
Author:
Ivan Pavlov
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It hurts. Frankly, it hurts terribly. I have just lived one of the biggest loss of my career. It will be difficult to digest that moment. It is extremely hard to accept. I am disappointed.
Author:
Tony Parker
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The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.
Author:
John Nicolay
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Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
Author:
Pervez Musharraf
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The pain of retirement means loss.
Author:
John Murray
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
Author:
Nana Mouskouri
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Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.
Author:
John Morgan
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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Author:
Marilyn Monroe
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The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
Author:
Slobodan Milosevic
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But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
Author:
Merton Miller
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American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
Author:
Don McLean
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Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.
Author:
Michael McCaul
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
Author:
Marya Mannes
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And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.
Author:
Thomas Malory
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Author:
Malcolm Malcolm X
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When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.
Author:
Margaret Mahy
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
Author:
James Madison
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Author:
James Madison
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Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Author:
James Madison
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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
Author:
James Madison
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A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
Author:
Edward Lucas
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He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
Author:
Augustus Longstreet
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I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
Author:
Jay London
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A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul.
Author:
Jesse Livermore
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The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
Author:
Penelope Lively
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
Author:
Dan Lipinski
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
Author:
Carolus Linnaeus
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On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Author:
Tom Lantos
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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.
Author:
Gustav Krupp
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
Author:
Ted Koppel
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Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.
Author:
William King
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To win you have to risk loss.
Author:
Jean-Claude Killy
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The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
Author:
Nicole Kidman
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Accept loss forever.
Author:
Jack Kerouac
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Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.
Author:
George Kennedy
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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
Author:
Thomas Kempis
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After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.
Author:
Mark Kelly
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I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
Author:
Raj Kapoor
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People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
Author:
Washington Irving
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It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.
Author:
King Hussein I
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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
Author:
Leigh Hunt
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What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.
Author:
David Houston
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I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
Author:
Alice Hoffman
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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.
Author:
Ruben Hinojosa
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Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
Author:
James Hillman
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
Author:
John Heywood
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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
Author:
Arthur Helps
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The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.
Author:
Thomas Hearns
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It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Author:
Stephen Hawking
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All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
Author:
Robert Hass
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
Author:
B. Hart
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As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
Author:
Albert Hart
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Author:
Sydney Harris
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When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
Author:
Woody Harrelson
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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.
Author:
Linda Hamilton
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Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
Author:
Douglas Haig
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My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
Author:
John Grierson
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Author:
Dick Gregory
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If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.
Author:
Judd Gregg
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Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.
Author:
Robert Graves
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Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
Author:
Anne Grant
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Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Author:
Anne Grant
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No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Author:
Al Gore
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One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
Author:
Mary Gordon
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You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
Author:
Robin Gibb
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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Author:
Shakti Gawain
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Author:
Paul Gauguin
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If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.
Author:
Christopher Gadsden
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The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
Author:
Morgan Freeman
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In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
Author:
Virginia Foxx
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The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.
Author:
John Foxe
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William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still.
Author:
Glenn Ford
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As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
Author:
Steve Forbes
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There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.
Author:
Terence Fisher
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I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.
Author:
Mike Figgis
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The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
Author:
Sarah Fielding
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Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
Author:
Johann Fichte
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If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
Author:
Chris Evert
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Author:
Epicurus
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Author:
Tryon Edwards
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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Author:
Thomas Edison
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The whispers of masonry tell stories neglected, each crack a tale hidden beneath brambles--theality visible returns,
Author:
Clara Bothwell
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A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
Author:
Phil Donahue
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In the silent gaps between laughter, we find whispers of ghosts untold; it's in missing someone himself sitting right next to us where we realize how big their unspoken presence truly looms.
Author:
Sophia Ann
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If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.
Author:
John Dingell
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I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.
Author:
Jonathan Dimbleby
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It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
Author:
Vin Diesel
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
Author:
Leonardo DiCaprio
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The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.
Author:
Jared Diamond
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
Author:
Ted Dexter
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
Author:
Democritus
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Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
Author:
Russell Crowe
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In infinite spaces where silence lingers, the forgotten echoes forge unsuitable alliances, posing truths where once whispers rekindled bare memories.
Author:
Aria Mendoza
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The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
Author:
Hart Crane
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Lost whispers reverberate back like constellations forgotten; in their silent audience, the history of our silence awaits.
Author:
Lynna Fortescue
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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
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Norman Cousins
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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Charles Colton
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
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William Clifford
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
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Eldridge Cleaver
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However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
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Julian Clary
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Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
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Eric Clapton
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It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
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Tom Clancy
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Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
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Winston Churchill
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Winston Churchill
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For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
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Jesus Christ
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Noam Chomsky
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Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
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Chilon
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When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
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Adelbert Chamisso
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The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
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Rosanne Cash
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You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.
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Dixie Carter
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For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.
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Kim Campbell
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There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
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James Callaghan
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
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What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
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William Broome
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
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Harold Brodkey
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I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all.
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John Breaux
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He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.
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Geoffrey Boycott
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What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
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Lisa Bonet
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Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.
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Julie Bishop
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The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
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Elizabeth Bishop
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We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.
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John Bernal
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Ulrich Beck
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And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
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Birch Bayh
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Saint Basil
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We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
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James Barrie
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'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
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Pedro Barca
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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Honore Balzac
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
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Russell Baker
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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Francis Bacon
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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
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Francis Bacon
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Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.
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Tracy Austin
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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Marcus Aurelius
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After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.
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William Ashley
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We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
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William Ashley
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This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.
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Gerard Arpey
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The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.
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Leonid Andreyev
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When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.
Author:
Aldrich Ames
