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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer."

Party Loss Ungrateful
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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
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"Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?"

People Numbers Loss
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Thomas A. Edison Inventor
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"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."

Time Loss Lost Friendship
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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"It is so important to remember that, as we travel through life, there will be so many events which we can`t control. These are things that seemingly alter our lives forever or become barriers for living a life of fulfillment. It`s important to remember that the ultimate experience of life is not to be controlled by events. We all have difficult events in our lives - the loss of family members, economics, stress, litigation, government interference in our businesses, health challenges. Remember that it is not the events that shape our lives, but, rather, the meaning we attach to them."

Government Loss Stress
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Richard Ford Novelist
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"The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better."

Art Past Loss
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Faith Baldwin Author
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"I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving."

Dream Loss Grief
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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
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"I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."

Want Doe Loss
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves."

Wisdom Loss Gains
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Marilyn Johnson Author, Journalist
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"In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for all—librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and they’re right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.D…In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste."

Player Loss Commitment
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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through."

Hurt Effort Loss
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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
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"we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all."

Inspirational Loss Bereavement
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Ludwig van Beethoven Composer, Pianist
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"Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing."

Thinking Men Loss
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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat
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"I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love."

Dark Loss Winter
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Dale Carnegie Author, Speaker
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"Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth- and refuse to give it any more."

Giving Order Loss
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Benjamin Graham Investor, Author
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"A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected."

Real Sound Loss
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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race."

Race Military Loss
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