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• I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

  Anne Bronte

  Girl, Respect, Self

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte, Ch. III : A Controversy; Helen to Gilbert, 1848.

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• And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Children, Thinking, Israel

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• Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

  Terry Brooks

  Travel, Hurt, Anger

  Terry Brooks (2002). “The Sword of Shannara Trilogy”, p.565, Del Rey

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• Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

  Bear Bryant

  Technology, Texas, Lost Ones

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• Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

  Bill Bryson

  Beautiful, Hate, Generations

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• Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

  Barbara Bush

  Book, White, House

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• In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Thinking, Games, Video

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• When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Games, Buttons, Fighter

  "Pong: The Ping Heard 'Round the World". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 2, 2007.

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• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

  Samuel Butler

  Thinking, Enemy, Looks

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.205, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.

  Nicolas Cage

  Real, Cds, Digital

  "Cage relishes operatic role in tragic `Leaving Las Vegas'". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. November 5, 1995.

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• I'm sure I've lost a few jobs because I'm a Christian. That's irrelevant. I can honestly say that of everything I have, of everything I've experienced, nothing compares to the joy of knowing Christ. Because I've been given a glimpse of Heaven and it outshines all of the rest.

  Kirk Cameron

  Christian, Jobs, Knowing

  "Kirk Cameron's Real Life Growing Pains". Interview with Will Dawson, www.cbn.com.

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• I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, Luxury, Poverty

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

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• Football lost its excitement for me.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Excitement

  "The king and I: meeting Eric Cantona". Interview with Julian Coman, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

  Steve Carell

  Death, New York, Husband

  "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.

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• I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

  George Carlin

  Memories, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

  Benjamin Carson

  Together, Empires, Moral

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• In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

  Benjamin Carson

  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

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• In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think, because the book was a horrific downer, an unrelenting account of the administration's actions, bungles, deceptions, half-truths, untruths, and downright corruptions.

  Graydon Carter

  Book, Thinking, Deception

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• I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.

  Nick Cave

  Beautiful, Rocks, Years

  "I saw music could be a beautiful, evil thing, while my parents shifted uncomfortably" by Nick Cave, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2003.

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• From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Reading, Sleep, Brain

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• The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

  Dick Cheney

  Dream, Inspired, Columbia

  "Service honors dreams of Columbia crew", www.cnn.com. February 6, 2003.

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• I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

  Eric Clapton

  Crazy, Grateful, Thinking

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• I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

  John Cleese

  Sports, Nuts, London

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• I have won elections and I have lost elections.

  Hillary Clinton

  Election, Midterm Elections

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• We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

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