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Ted Leo Musician
Loss

"The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented. If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it."

Desire Loss Identity
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Ted Leo Musician
Loss

"Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life."

Way Loss Small Moments
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society."

Men Real Loss
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise."

Wise Loss Infancy Is
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable."

Character Loss Suicide
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Loss

"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

Men Character Loss
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Loss

"I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals."

School Teaching Loss
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss."

Sleep Hero Loss
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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
Loss

"[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere."

Loss Faith Blessed
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Vince Young Football Player
Loss

"People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses."

People Loss Levels
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Loss

"But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss."

Loss Sorrow Gains
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Virchand Gandhi Social Reformer
Loss

"The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain."

May Soul Loss
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"And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone."

Dream Memories Loss
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Theodore Parker Transcendentalist, Minister
Loss

"Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time."

Men Loss Intellectual
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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
Loss

"Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to."

Trying Loss Acceptance
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