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“There is always a certain amount of 'transmission loss.' You can have a power generator and if the power is going on 100 miles away, even with very efficient cable there could be a certain amount of loss.”

Ifs Certain Loss Teacher Amount Miles Enlightened Efficient Cables Miles Away Transmission Generator

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.”

Has Beens Together Mother Certain Parent Loss Results Wonderful Amount Married Teenager Working Together Autonomy Involving Wonderful Marriage

Author:Jessica Valenti

“The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.”

Loss Known Amount Gains Rate Commodity Criteria Utility Equilibrium Small Amounts

Author:William Stanley Jevons

“Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.”

Happens Loss Amount Dull

Book:The William Carlos Williams Reader

Source: The William Carlos Williams Reader

“Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.”

Trying Loss Amount Gains Imperfect Probability

Author:Warren Buffett

“The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.”

Has Beens Growth Loss Poor Cases Produce Huge Type Amount Factors Farmers Infrastructure Transport

Author:Richard Attias

“The risk of an investment is described by both the probability and the potential amount of loss. The risk of an investment-the probability of an adverse outcome-is partly inherent in its very nature. A dollar spent on biotechnology research is a riskier investment than a dollar used to purchase utility equipment. The former has both a greater probability of loss and a greater percentage of the investment at stake.”

Used Loss Greater Risk Amount Research Dollars Investment Investing Former Outcomes Stakes Inherent Equipment Probability Percentages Utility Adverse Biotechnology

Author:Seth Klarman

“Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from an investment. If an exploratory oil well proves to be a dry hole, it is called risky. If a bond defaults or a stock plunges in price, they are called risky. But if the well is a gusher, the bond matures on schedule, and the stock rallies strongly, can we say they weren't risky when the investment after it is concluded than was known when it was made.”

Ifs Mind Wells Made Loss Results Known Risk Amount Prove Perception Investment Investing Oil Holes Analysis Dry Investors Schedules Probability Plunge Default

Author:Seth Klarman

“Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years”

Years Firsts Moments Time Hours Loss Amount Stealing Calendars

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c

“There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."”

Way Loses Loss Rooms Responsibility Minutes Talent Amount Waste Corporate Employee Productive Family Responsibility

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.”

Loss Amount Approval

Author:Max Anders

“Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.”

Thinking Writing Trying Years I Can Certain Loss Hair Amount Prove Fairs Years Ago Sentences Stuck Twirling Hair Loss

Author:Eric Schlosser

“There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most dramatic language loss is in Europe.”

Language Given Loss Attention Amount Europe Make Sense Dramatic Indigenous

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism "revved up" so that weight loss is easier. There is, however, very little hard evidence that supports this idea, and a fair amount that disputes it.”

Littles Ideas Hard Loss Support Amount Easier Eating Evidence Fairs Weight Meals Extras Usual Justification Disputes Weight Loss Metabolism

Author:Andrew Weil