"They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing."
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"Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own."
"Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility."
"Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself."
"Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will."
"I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by."
"For one gains by losing And loses by gaining."
"In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies."
"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them."
"If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial."
"It's the good loser who finally loses out."
"Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems."
"How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them."
"Winning an argument is losing it as it makes the loser feel bad."
"Chaos is always losing, but never defeated"
"This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity."
"To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself."
"The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence."
"The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained."
"The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it."