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“Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?”

Feels Doe Loses Gains Ideals Accounts Satisfaction Motive Acquisition Pretense Trifling

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.”

World Needs Heart Mean Loses Break Failing This World Offers Succeed Accounts Memoir Intimacy Gossip Truthful Testimony Break Your Heart

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.”

Men World Art Real Courses Loses Fate Accounts Prime Misfortunes Imaginary Real Friends Imaginary Friend Prime Of Life

Book:The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)

Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)

“We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.”

Ifs Men World Young Dies Loses Youth Promise Accounts Crowds Debt Young Man New World Die Young

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“I am a feral person. I have no bank account. I am unemployable. I own nothing. I lose my shoes sometimes when I go out. It sounds like I'm making a case for my own exceptionalism, which I suppose I am, but I wish it wasn't true.”

Persons Sometimes Wish Sound Loses My Own Cases Accounts Shoes Bank Accounts Exceptionalism

Author:Tony Burgess

“A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.”

Men Loses Money Five Fool Accounts Dollars Profit Expenses Cents

Author:Gene Fowler

“And so to dismiss these homegrown terrorists as boobs, which is one of the terms that was used in one of the New York newspapers after the Miami raid, is true now, but to bet on that is I think a sure way to lose your bank account.”

Thinking Way Used Term Loses New York Accounts Terrorist Newspapers Miami Bank Accounts Homegrown

Author:Michael Scheuer

“I want to tell every fan that I appreciate them with a retweet or reply but I don't want my account to lose my own tweets. I don't my fans to have to go through a bunch of replies to get to my own tweets right? In the big picture though I do read all of the tweets and I appreciate all of my followers and my fans.”

Want Bigs Loses My Own Fans Appreciate Accounts Bunch Followers Tweet Big Picture Retweet

Author:G-Eazy

“Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Said Reason Loses Imagine Mankind Accounts Supreme Reasoning Attempting Obliged Without God Supreme Being

Book:Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.”

“A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134”

Ifs Men Trying Loses Failing Ambition Pages Ordinary Deserve Accounts Fortune Satisfaction Observation Admiration Looking Back Aspire Mediocre Consolation Rise Above

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.”

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Author:Irwin Corey

“Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account . . . Here then I leave you to labor alone; you treat me in the same manner. The seasons change, and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security.”

Knows Want Should Littles Today Pain Community Loses Kindness Security Mines Tomorrow Labor Treats Seasons Accounts Aids Mutual Volunteer Citizenship Harvest Corn Profitable Ripe Seasons Change

Author:David Hume

“When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.”

Ifs Men Action Suffering Lost Loses Mistake Quality Courage Four Failing Conditions Regret Fool Battle Respect Accounts Absolutes Defeat Wide Awake Fulfilled Assurance Pitiful Wide Awake

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.”

Wells Made Earth Science Loses Poor Records Glory Accounts Remains Filled Extremes Noble Collections Museums Imperfection Hazards Intervals Embedded Geology

Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species

“The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.”

Way May Science Loses Modern Development Accounts Extraordinary Workers Proportion Outlook Modern Science Mazes Fragmented Undoing Minutiae

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.”

Jobs Sound Hours Loses Millions Accounts Dollars Investment Islands Cents Governors Badass Romney Paychecks Bank Accounts Swiss Ira Governor Romney Cayman Islands

Author:Lilly Ledbetter

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