"Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong."
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"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."
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"He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated."
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"We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering."
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"Whenever I take a position, I like to imagine what it would be like under the worst-case scenario. In doing so, I minimize the confusion if that situation actually develops. In my view, losses are a very important part of trading. When a loss happens, I believe in embracing it."
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"It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss."
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"I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out."
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"I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled"
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"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."
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"Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years."
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"The dog without his master was like a body without a soul."
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"Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation"
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"Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause."
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"I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship."
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"Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react."
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"The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet."
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"Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss."
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"The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self."
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"What greater grief than the loss of one's native land."
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"Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie."
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