"When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity."
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"Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions."
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"She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining."
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"Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape."
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"We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing."
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"In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,' and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers."
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"Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world."
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"I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly."
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"Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I sure miss the polar bears. Their babies are so warm and cuddly and trusting, just like ours."
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"It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being there was like the sharply outlined emptiness of a photo with a figure cut out precisely with scissors and now the missing figure is more important, more dominant than all others."
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"When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon."
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"I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over."
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"I'll miss you most of all scarecrow."
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"Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss."
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"Choosing a path means having to miss out on others"
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"There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me."
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"You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor."
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"Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world."
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"Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly."
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"If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun."
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