Emily Dickinson Quotes
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
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If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
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When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
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We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted.
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First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.
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A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.
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To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
