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• The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Consciousness, Break, Hardest

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• There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

  Karl Jaspers

  Men, Cry, Mass

  Karl Jaspers (2014). “Man in the Modern Age (Routledge Revivals)”, p.91, Routledge

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• On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand, we have the day-to-day struggle; on the other, the social revolution. It follows that this movement can best advance by tacking betwixt and between the two dangers by which it is constantly being threatened. One is the loss of its mass character; the other, the abandonment of its goal. One is the danger of sinking back to the condition of a sect; the other, the danger of becoming a movement of bourgeois social reform.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Struggle, Character, Hands

  "The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?".

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• The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Psychology, Aversion, Economics

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.341, Macmillan

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• You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

  Phil Gramm

  America, Complaining, Whining

  "Gramm: We need more leadership, less whining" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2008.

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• Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The trick is to enjoy what you have while you have it. Not run like a bunny from the good things because they might be taken away sooner than you’d like.

  Lynsay Sands

  Running, Pain, Taken

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• I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination... Gadhafi died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Brother, Fighting, Honor

  "Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan condemns killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi" by Ryan Haggerty, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I was shocked when I found out who the biggest failure in the Bible actually is...The biggest one in the whole Bible is God...I mean, He lost His top-ranking, most anointed angel; the first man He ever created; the first woman He ever created; the whole earth and all the fullness therein; a third of the angels, at least - that's a big loss, man....Now, the reason you don't think of God as a failure is He never said He's a failure. And you're not a failure till you say you're one.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Mean, Angel, Men

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• There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in.

  Michael Connelly

  Running, Opportunity, Reality

  Michael Connelly (2009). “The Lincoln Lawyer”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

  Tom Clancy

  Lost Friendship, Vietnam, Lessons

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• I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.

  Lydia Lunch

  Hurt, Sex, Healing

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• I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

  Anne Bronte

  Sex, Book, Writing

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte (under the pseudonym "Acton Bell"), Preface to the 2nd edition, July 22, 1848.

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• Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.

  Jerome Bruner

  Memories, Ideas, Principles

  Jerome S. Bruner (2006). “In Search of Pedagogy Volume I: The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978”, p.46, Routledge

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• In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.

  Ursula Hegi

  Writing, Grace, Ordinary Moments

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• When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts. This can save you from becoming an adult too early, save your life from becoming only theirs lived over again--which is a loss. But to shield yourself--as I didn't do--seems to be an even greater error, since what's lost is the truth of your parents' life and what you should think about it, and beyond that, how you should estimate the world you are about to live in.

  Richard Ford

  Heart, Thinking, Errors

  Richard Ford (2010). “Wildlife”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Competition, Matter, Return

  Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.173, eNet Press

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• I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.

  Nick Carter

  Exercise, Long, Majority

  "Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter Opens Up About 65 Pound Weight Loss" by Deidre Behar, www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2011.

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• In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Military, Sacrifice, Blood

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• Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.

  Mitch Daniels

  Eye, Events, World

  Mitch Daniels' keynote speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee at Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner in Washington, D.C., www.americanrhetoric.com. February 11, 2011.

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• There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mind, Decay, Awakening

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.537

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• For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Exercise, Voice, Long

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• There is far more danger in public than in private monopoly, for when Government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayers. Government never makes ends meetand that is the first requisite of business.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Government, Firsts

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• I cannot get rid of the hurt from losing, but after the last out of every loss, I must accept that there will be a tomorrow. In fact, it's more than there'll be a tomorrow, it's that I want there to be a tomorrow. That's the big difference, I want tomorrow to come.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Hurt, Differences

  Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

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• There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

  James Callaghan

  British Soldiers, Citizens, Injustice

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• When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.

  Peter Singer

  Happy Life, Adverse Effects, Views

  Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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