Losing quotes
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"But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing."
"But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself."
"This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever."
"The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it."
"Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose."
"Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy."
"Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?"
"Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself."
"Find yourself by losing yourself for others."
"Winners have to absorb losses."
"In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time."
"Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward."
"Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way."
"One thing that's interesting to me is how we as humans seem to be losing our ability to stand still and be alone with our thoughts. If you want to, you have to arrange it now. You have to go off where there's no WiFi and leave your equipment behind, but still have some sort of GPS tracking to make sure you don't get lost or die."
"It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love - I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again."
"In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole."
"How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage? Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system."
"My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others."
"when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity."
"I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army."
