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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
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"Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power."

Men Eye Loss
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty."

Loss Gains Inner Strength
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Banana Yoshimoto Novelist
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"Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity"

Understanding Loss Single Mom
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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one's loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom."

Lying Hands Loss
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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
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"We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone."

Men Loss Mad
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Esther Perel Psychotherapist, Author
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"For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?"

Couple Loss Infidelity
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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
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"People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel."

Ideas Hate Loss
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Chris Kraus Writer and Filmmaker
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"No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming someone else or worse: becoming nothing but the vibratory field between two people."

People Two Loss
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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is."

Knowing Loss Atheist
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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
Loss

"Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one."

Mistake Cutting Loss
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Byron Katie Author, Speaker
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"A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise."

Mind Loss Earthquakes
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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime."

Life Dream Loss
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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit."

Lying Loss Death
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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
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"For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 lbs. I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything."

Years Choices Loss
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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't."

Thinking Winning Loss
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth."

Years Loss 4th Of July
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John Newton Clergyman, Hymn Writer
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"Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years"

Years Time Loss
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