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• I never lost money by turning a profit.

  Bernard Baruch

  Profit, Lost Money

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• I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Kind, Modern

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• I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

  Beck

  Mp3, Sound, Translations

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2012.

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• By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

  Glenn Beck

  Suicidal, Mean, Kitchen

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• A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

  Max Beerbohm

  Heart, Eye, Half

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

  Brendan Behan

  Men, Differences, History

  Brendan Behan (2014). “Behan Complete Plays”, p.210, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Years, Desire, Foolish

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• With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

  Paul Berg

  Discovery, Facts, Excitement

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• The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Real, Stress, Thinking

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• I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.

  Annie Besant

  Mother, Dream, Home

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airplane, Safety, Risk

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• You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

  Jeff Bezos

  World, Narrative, Stories

  "'We Start With the Customer and We Work Backward'". Interview with Daniel Lyons, www.slate.com. December 24, 2009.

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• Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Voice, Departure, Misery

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

  Conrad Black

  War, Party, Cutting

  Conrad Black (2016). “Backward Glances: People and Events from Inside and Out”, p.230, Signal

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• When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if you don't have a sense of what the common good is, then at least give to what you think your specific goods are.

  Lewis Black

  School, Thinking, Giving

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• I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Tired, Player, Guitar

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• Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Wise

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Government, House

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• 22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Jobs, New Job, President

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• I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Horse, Hero, Sight

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• I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Work, Life Changing, Needs

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• There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

  John Bolton

  New York, Differences, Stories

  "Rand Paul Warns Donald Trump Not To Choose ‘Menace’ John Bolton As Secretary Of State" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2016.

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• While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.

  Elayne Boosler

  Cutting, Editors, Space

  "You Didn’t Hear the One About..." by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

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• The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Tired, Credibility, Viewers

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• I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

  John O. Brennan

  Sensitive, Method, Divulge

  "The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy". Remarks by John O. Brennan at the Wilson Center, www.wilsoncenter.org. April 30, 2012.

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