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• If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."

  Tom DeMarco

  Character, Dark, Technology

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• The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

  Michael Ian Black

  Seven Months, Weight, Six

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• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. My make-up. My culture and heritage is a very rich one. So what if it's difficult for people to pronounce? We all learned how to say Schwarzenegger.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Character, Who I Am, Names

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.

  Demetri Martin

  Eye, Looks, Idiot

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• If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

  Bertrand Russell

  Joy, Ends, Savour

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Spring, Thinking, Government

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• They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Night, Expectations, Dawn

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• We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Praying, Exertion, Imaginary

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• Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.

  John McCain

  Als, Republican, Governors

  "Forgive me, Bush asks Catholic voter" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2000.

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• Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, May, Deny

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2008). “The Doctrines of Grace”, p.160, Lulu.com

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• Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

  Booker T. Washington

  Self, Patient, Calm

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.311, University of Illinois Press

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• We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for and sharing with each other ... We cannot move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong, to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent and uniquely good about America.

  Colin Powell

  Hurt, Moving, Sacrifice

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• In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• 1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jesus, Humility, Thinking

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• Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

  Dallas Willard

  Character, Creation, Force

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• When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance.

  Jeff Myers

  Cities, Common Purpose, Our Generation

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• The scriptures are basically a narrative of God's interaction with human kind. If we lose this notion of God's desire for relationship with human beings, we're in danger of losing the heart of the Christian faith. Doctrines, of course, will flow from that, but when the scriptures call us to Believe, we're being called to put our trust in Someone, not just agree with a bunch of doctrine. Demons could do that. We are to commit ourselves to Christ.

  Paul Copan

  Christian, Believe, Heart

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• The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

  George Santayana

  Eye, And Love, World

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.248, MIT Press

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• There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.

  Victoria Osteen

  Jobs, Hands, Pay

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• Since the government creates no wealth, it can only transfer the wealth required to hire people. Even if the government creates a million jobs, that is not a net increase in jobs, when the money that pays for those jobs is taken from the private sector, which loses that much ability to create private jobs.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Taken, Government

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• When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Grief, Winning

  "Political Statistics". townhall.com. April 05, 2011.

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• Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

  Beverly Sills

  Trying, Prove It, Knows

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• The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.

  Bruce Berkowitz

  Investing, Life Is, Tricks

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• When you stand up for yourself and try to be autonomous and self-determining, you're called a lot of names that we all know and that are very common. You may lose your job. You may lose custody of your child. You may be blamed for the failure of your marriage even though it was the man who couldn't tolerate an equal relationship.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Children, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really.

  James Ponsoldt

  Perspective, Film, States

  Source: collider.com

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