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“On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.”

“The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.”

People Wells War Seems Dies Fighting Social Loss Five Ten Hundred Los Angeles Consensus Ammunition Social Service

Author:Jeff Cooper

“It is worth pointing out that assuredly not more than one person out of a hundred who stayed in the market after after 1925 emerged from it with a net profit and that the speculative losses taken were appalling.”

Persons Loss Taken Hundred Profit Pointing

Author:Benjamin Graham

“The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.”

Ifs Thinking Might Loss Hundred Sight Aging Dumb If I Could Blindness Deaf Deaf And Dumb

Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I should have been rewarded for helping the Indians turn around a half century of losing. It was a shame they decided to treat me that way, after all I did for them. I helped this team go from one-hundred six losses to basically one-hundred six wins and into the World Series. And what do I get for it? Nothing.”

Source: Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle

“We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?”

Years Has Beens Wisdom Hands Loss Cities Five Hundred Letters Twenties Infinite Wit Temples Verses Castles Palaces Monument Miscellaneous Twenty Five Syllables

Book:The Advancement of Learning

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“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.”

Men World Stills Fall Black Dark Loss Hundred Rain Crosses Blind Forty Nails Rainy Day Nineteen

Author:Edith Sitwell

“We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.”

Knows Feels Trying Years Humans I Can Joy Energy Loss Waste Hundred Gains Human Life Fifty Conception Bitterness Human Thought Greatest Wisdom

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.”