"Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won."
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"Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?"
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"Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found."
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"I just lost a buttonhole."
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"Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost."
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"Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me."
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"Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about."
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"I speculate that the genesis of the chicken-joke lies in some situation such as the one illustrated above, but over time the original context of the joke was lost, which left the chicken sadly decontextualized."
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"I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much."
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"Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her."
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"Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction."
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"And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life."
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"Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money."
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"For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost."
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"I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans."
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"Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj."
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"What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence."
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"I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world."
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"Greed is costly. Assembled fortunes are lost."
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"From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all."
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