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“The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to change. Planned, controlled, beneficent change would continue to clear slums, sweep up the remains of empire, raise living and educational standards, tidy away--firmly but kindly--the last aboriginals who still raved about martial glory or the pride of wealth. Now, as it seems to me, change is set almost exclusively in the minor key, change seen overwhelmingly as loss.”

Stills Seems Lasts Young Change Wealth Loss Clear Changed Pride Keys Glory Standards Raises Remains Educational Empires Controlled Minors Impatience Tidy Slums Aboriginal

Book:Games with Shadows

Source: Games with Shadows

“In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.”

Source: Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“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

“We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.”

Trying Heart Whole Loses Loss Achieve Gratitude Remains Embrace

Book:Broken Vessels: Essays

Source: Broken Vessels: Essays

“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

“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.”