Lose Quotes
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Every triumph is also a defeat, and the ecstasies of those who prevail are matched by the agonies of those who lose.
Bart Ehrman
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We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.
Francesco Guicciardini
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We just needed win - period. We're just struggling so badly right now. Then to lose this would have been bad because we played really well defensively.
Allen Iverson
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Bill Clinton was the man, as a matter of fact, who, in terms of the Communications Decency Act, which would have made the Internet, the whole concept of cyberspace, vulnerable to rampant censorship - he pushed that bill, and I know the man in the Justice Department whom he persuaded - the guy didn't want to lose his job - to write the bill.
Nat Hentoff
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In the films the good guy always wins, but this is one bad guy who ain't gonna lose.
Sonny Liston
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Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?
Alfie Kohn
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It is sad
To see the light of beauty wane away,
Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet
Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness;
But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone,
To lose hope, care not for the coming thing,
And feel all things go to decay within us.
Philip James Bailey
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By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.
Abigail McCarthy
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What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.
Axel Munthe
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There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
Alan Alda