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“Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.”

Doe Has Beens Whole Happens Would Be Loses Loss Economy Groups Possibility Particular Higher Gains Acceptable Fixing Transactions Gains And Losses

Author:Thomas Sowell

“If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.”

“During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to the country and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss. The grieving that the country feels is real, the sympathy, the prioritizing, the comforting of the families, all that’s important. But I think part of the point that I wanted to make was that it’s not enough just to feel bad.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Important Real Ends Country Enough Wanted Courses Speak Community Loss Particular Couple Grieving Presidency Comforting Prioritize Devastating Loss

Author:Barack Obama

“All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.”

Loss Responsibility Situation Particular Gains Economics Stakeholder Gains And Losses

Author:Christine Lagarde

“the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.”

Persons Home Process Loss Particular Painful Violent Familiar Traditional Flight Permanent Occupation Refugee Rebirth Parting Close Friends Midwife Familiar Places

Author:Dervla Murphy

“Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict.”

Form Term Loss Greater Particular Conflict Gains Institutions Property Justification Restriction Elimination

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.”

Heart Pain Suffering Universe Loss Particular Remains

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“I get very nostalgic for times and places and experiences, but I have a wonderful group of core friends and family who I love and adore, so I don't mourn the loss of any particular friendship. I think they're all part of a path, and the ones that really mean something are still important in my life.”

Thinking Mean Stills Important Loss Path Wonderful Groups Particular Core Adore Family And Friends Really Mean Mourn Nostalgic

Author:Katie Aselton

“Al-Qaida in particular remains dangerous, and there [in Iraq] is some residual militia and special group presence. There are still between 20 and 30 attacks per day, still periodic car bombs and still loss of innocent civilians.”

Stills Loss Groups Special Dangerous Car Particular Remains Iraq Innocent Bombs Als Civilians Militia Residual

Author:David Petraeus

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.”

Moments Dream Might Faces Political Memories Loss Race Cities Particular Expression Materials Prove Innocence Injury Wounded Loss Of Innocence

Book:Against the Day

Source: Against the Day

“The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished.”

“The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.”

Source: Farther Away: Essays