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“The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.”

Doe Dies Loses Party Common Friends Going Away Links Alphabet Subtraction

Book:The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works

Source: The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works

“We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.”

Loses Laughing Spells Live Your Life Do The Best

Author:Will Rogers

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.”

Ifs Long Seems Happens Loses Laughter Happenings Fades Kinder

Book:The Writings of Will Rogers

Source: The Writings of Will Rogers

“A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.”

Believe Loses Hell Fire Devil Gold Overcoming Remains Secure Substance Heat Believe In God Misfortunes Fury Shields Fear Not Fiery Fear Nothing

Book:The Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther

“Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.”

Giving Art States Fall Loses Remains Divinity Faculty Diligence Straws Invocation Empresses

Book:The Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther

“He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart.”

Heart Fall Heaven Voice Loses Despair Sight Tendencies Word Of God

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.”

Reason Loses Perfect Knowing Highest Pioneers

Book:Book of Blues

Source: Book of Blues

“Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.”

Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

“If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.”

Ifs Asks Loses Too Much Greed

Author:Isaac Asimov

“I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.”

Heart Reason Earth Lasts Humanity Loses Results Taken Groups Influence Significant Resistance Bitter Technological Resisting Exaggerated Amazement Stitches Technological Change

Author:Isaac Asimov

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”

Men Inspirational Wisdom Motivational Past Fear Change Loses Courage Adventure Travel Ocean Discovery Sight Bravery Patience Novelists Life Changing Exploration Shore Daring Time Travel Discovering Traveled Graduation Funny Travel New Beginnings Adventurous Have Courage Great Travel Inspiring Travel Travel The World Travel Adventure Adventurer Adventure And Travel Essayists Change For The Better Life Is An Adventure Inspirational Military Inspirational Adventure Roads Traveled Great Adventure Life Adventure Courage Strength Adventure And Life New Start Want To Travel New Discoveries Travel And Tourism Inspirational Courage Next Adventure Inspirational Adventure Time Inspirational New Beginning Accepting Change Time And Change Courage To Change Fear Of Change New Adventure Creating Change Discovery In Life Adventurous Souls Short Travel Life Changing Love Adventure And Risk Discovery And Travel Daring To Be Great Discovering The World Exploration And Adventure Accepting Things

Author:Andre Gide

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel

“I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.”

Giving Art Made Facts Shows Hate Order Loses Effort Moral Movement Direct Machines I Hate Fantastic Vain Spontaneous Presentation Demonstration Symbolic Fables Allegory

Author:Luigi Pirandello

“Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.”

Names Loses Virgins

Author:Philip Massinger

“How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.”

Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

“Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.”

Government Loses Conditions Capitalism Workers Anarchy Anarchism Nothing To Lose

Book:What is Communist Anarchism?

Source: What is Communist Anarchism?

“Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.”

Wells Persons Doe Different Seems Action Loses Acting Moral Focus Authority Standards Expectations Conscience Concern Being True Acquire Consideration Sentiments

Author:Stanley Milgram

“If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.”

Ifs Long I Can Happens Loses Alive Generations Promise Deserve Balls Magazines Vigorous Editorials Playboy I'm Alive

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.”

Children Doe Loses Vision Clear Evidence Discovery Adults Scientist Prejudice Strive Senses Observation Preconceptions Scientific Discovery Candid Aberration

Book:Induction and intuition in scientific thought

Source: Induction and intuition in scientific thought

“The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.”

Littles Humanity Dies Loses Forgotten Links Anchors

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Wells War Home America Loses Enemy Trouble Return Logic Sight Sake Folks Justification Momentum Back Home

Book:Power Politics

Source: Power Politics

“Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" is full of it! Winning makes all the difference in the world. Winning is fun. Losing is not. Losing sucks.”

World Said Play Games Winning Fun Loses Differences Losing Win Or Lose

Book:My Prison Without Bars

Source: My Prison Without Bars

“That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.”

Loses Growing Up Growing Terrible Surprise Inevitable Terrible Things

Author:Paul McCartney

“Poor people always lose in struggles.”

People Loses Poor Struggle Poor People

Author:Michael Servetus

“To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.”

Loses Justice One Thing Figures Sight Purity Peculiar

Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations

“That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.”

Years Persons Character Lasts Loses Decision Break Four Serious Perspective Disaster Absurd Barack Abandon Insightful Four Years Admirable Composure

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.”

Men Ends Stories Water Loses Comedy Tree Divine Revelations Genesis Divine Comedy Water Of Life

Author:Northrop Frye

“They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.”

Ifs Men May Has Beens Hands Would Be Lost Loses Perfect Behinds Gone Generations Century Limits Gains Perfection Improvement Invention Great Men Reaching Receiving Lag

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.”

Men Believe May Speak Loses Losing Temper Entitled Speak The Truth Implicit

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.”

Grows Loses Honest Drink Devil Sober Cunning

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships - i.e., the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences.”

Men Should Made Important Loses Economic Consequence Sight Important Things Structure Workers Including Superiors Subordinates Personal Relationships Co Worker

Author:Vaclav Havel

“I didn't lose my virginity until I was twenty-six. Nineteen vaginally, but twenty-six what my boyfriend calls "the real way".”

Way Real Humor Funny Loses Six Twenties Virginity My Boyfriend Nineteen

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.”

Needs Humans Sometimes Use Poetry Loses Audience Mystery Involved Essentials Wave Appeals Being Human

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.”

Art Hard Lost Hours Loses Accepting Doors Masters Keys Losing

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.”

People Mind Wells Sometimes Sports Loses Goes On Pressure Insane Fighter Boxing Bottles Make Out Skid Row

Author:Mike Tyson

“One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.”

Knows Writing Doe Ideas Done Speak Loses Losing Grateful Good Ideas Negotiation

Author:John Ashbery

“And what can we expect if we haven't any dinner, But to lose our teeth and eyelashes and keep on growing thinner?”

Ifs Loses Growing Havens Dinner Teeth Eyelashes

Author:Edward Lear

“I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary. There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race. There is a cultural diversity that's very valuable, and it's valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Should Trying Important Different Loses Differences Race Diversity Valuable Different Ways Cultural Diversity Complementary Humanistic

Author:Alan Lightman

“The money men make from their willingness to work the least desirable hours is not a sign of discrimination against women, but a sign of the willingness of mostly married men to lose sleep to support the family as their wife loses sleep to feed the child. A willingness to do the uncomfortable shifts is one reason married men earn more than twice what never-married men earn. Men's contribution, made at night, need not be lost in the dark.”

Men Needs Children Made Reason Night Lost Hours Loses Dark Sleep Support Wife Married Discrimination Uncomfortable Contribution Willingness Desirable Married Man

Author:Warren Farrell

“When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.”

People Loses Contact

Author:Warren Farrell

“Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parent loses, so lose the children.”

Children Father Parent Loses Influence Involved Destruction Eras Emergence Reconstruction Visitation

Author:Warren Farrell

“Speak to all men as you do to yourself, with no concern for the effect you make, so that you do not shut them out from your world; lest in isolation the meaning of life slips out of sight and you lose the belief in the perfection of creation.”

Men World Belief Speak Loses Effects Creation Concern Perfection Sight Meaning Of Life Isolation Slips

Author:Leo Szilard

“[Social legislation] raised the cost of production; and what can be more illogical than to raise the cost of production in the country and then to allow the products of other countries which are not surrounded by any similar legislation, which are free from any similar cost and expenditure freely to enter our country in competition with our own goods...If these foreign goods come in cheaper, one of two things must follow...either you will take lower wages or you will lose your work.”

Ifs Two Country Social Loses Products Cost Raises Competition Raised Productions Our Country Two Things Goods Other Countries Legislation Wages Cheaper Expenditures Illogical

Author:Joseph Chamberlain

“I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in”

Want Looks I Can Loses Moon West Senses Fence Ridges

Author:Cole Porter

“It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.”

Way Kind Children Kids Easy Loses Greatness Notion Helpful Having Kids

Author:Matt Damon

“The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the darkAnd we may lose everything in the windBut the Northern Lights are burningAnd they're giving off sparks.”

Giving May Light Loses Cutting Cold Sparks Knives Icy Northern Lights

Author:Jim Steinman

“I feel displaced when I'm back in America, like a visitor. I feel like if I don't get a cup of tea I'm going to lose my mind.”

Ifs Feels Mind America Loses Cups Tea Visitors Cups Of Tea I'm Back

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, You gotta believe in foolish miracles, it's not how you play the game, it's if you win or lose, you can choose, don't confuse, win or lose.”

Ifs Believe Play Found Games Winning Loses Miracle Foolish Win Or Lose

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody.”

Important Loses Nice Who You Are

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I once heard that women dress for women -- not for men -- and I think that has some truth to it. Men, what do they know? They don't know if you gain or lose five pounds. They're oblivious to those kinds of things. A lot of men will say "I like you just as you are." And you're like "But I'm bloated!" If they're attracted to you, they're attracted to you.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Kind Loses Five Heard Like You Gains Dresses Pounds Oblivious I Like You

Author:Scarlett Johansson