"Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost."
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"The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning."
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"You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here."
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"Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost."
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"Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one."
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"I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior"
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"I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness."
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"Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks."
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"Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing."
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"I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion."
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"You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more."
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"Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working."
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"I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world"
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"Nothing is lost as long as courage remains"
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"If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost."
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"You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness."
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"There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you've lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss."
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"God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved."
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"To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost."
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"I never lost money by turning a profit."
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