"Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable."
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"I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing."
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"you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece"
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"I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her."
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"She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody."
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"It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful."
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"I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don't know what the voice is saying, or even what language it's in."
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"Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing."
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"My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it."
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"President Obama , I guess, is starting to confess to some of his anxieties. In a recent interview, President Obama said, 'I miss being anonymous.' He said, 'In the old days, I could blend in with all the other Hawaiian Barack Hussein Obamas.'"
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"Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping."
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"The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it."
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"If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching."
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"Our happiness is made up of the things we miss."
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"Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not."
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"The greed for fruit misses the flower."
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"Your work matters a great deal to God, to others and to our world. There is no ordinary work. The work God has called you to do is extraordinary. Don't miss out on God's best by taking an ordinary approach to it."
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"There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something."
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"If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst."
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"The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football."
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