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• There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

  Petra Nemcova

  Lost Love, Second Chance, Way

  "Model Petra Nemcova Recovering After Tsunami". abcnews.go.com. May 17, 2005.

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• The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

  Jo Nesbo

  Norway, Maradona, Myth

  " Anders Breivik massacre will change crime writing, says author" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2011.

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• Anybody can get lost in themselves.

  Joe Nichols

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• I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

  Rachel Nichols

  Iphone, Names, Car

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• Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

  Jack Nicholson

  Way, Made, Knows

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• I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Two, Feelings, Joints

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• Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.

  Conan O'Brien

  Stars, War, Years

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• Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Spiritual, Discovery, Doors

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition”, p.281, Oxford University Press

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• One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Has Beens

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• To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Tradition, Whole

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• I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Jobs, Pain

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

  Laurence Olivier

  Honey, Moments, Ifs

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• America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.

  John Olver

  Emotional, Battle Wounds, Iraq

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• Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

  Yoko Ono

  Running, Country, Culture

  "When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

  Susan Orlean

  Children, Winter, Ohio

  "Drifting" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2011.

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• Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

  George Orwell

  War, Battle, Eton

  The Lion and the Unicorn pt. 1, sec. 4 (1941) SeeWellington 7

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• The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Tired, Long, Capacity

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• I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.

  Michael Owen

  Games, Needs, Weapons

  "England's bigger than Michael Owen anyway" by Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

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• What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'

  Mehmet Oz

  Eye, Doctors, Years

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• My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Wall, People, Realizing

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• The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Soul, Feelings, Matter

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  Rand Paul

  African American, Firsts, Vote

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Rights, Voting

  Sen. Rand Paul's speech at Howard University in Washington, D.C., www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.

  Sarah Paulson

  Winning, Thinking, Looks

  "‘American Horror Story’ Finale: Sarah Paulson Defends Lana Winters, Talks End Of ‘Asylum’ And More" by Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2010.

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• A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Men, Great Day, Progress

  Lester B. Pearson (1974). “Mike: the memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson”, Crown

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