"The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history."
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"There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause"
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"There are memories I a better off without. Things better lost forever."
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"You're not lost, Kaylee. You can't ever be lost, because I'll always know where you are. And if I'm not there with you, I'm on my way, and nothing standing between us will be standing for very long."
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""I had Krishna and I have lost Him." That is humility."
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"Everyone feels lost and low. It's how a person acts that makes them different."
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"The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population."
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"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."
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"With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity."
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"She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't."
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"Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed."
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"Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time."
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"…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered."
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"Something significant has been lost."
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"I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost."
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"It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein."
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"This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever."
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"Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'""
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"I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation."
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"Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost."
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