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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thoug...

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ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I muc...

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I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, whi...

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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothin...

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Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a...

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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is ...

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Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappe...

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...

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I’d won the worldbut like aforsaken explorer,I’d lostmy map.

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But eve...

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[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves...

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Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch...

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As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has ...

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People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate ...

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I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I ...

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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long ...

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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out indepen...

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We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights ...

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There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so th...

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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived...

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I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the mo...

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Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both...

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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues a...

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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing y...

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I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afrai...

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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think a...

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We all fight monsters, she knew. There was no shame in losing.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, becau...

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When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrong...

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There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no lon...

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I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, ...

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It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid ...

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I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the de...

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Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronge...

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Paulo CoelhoWarrior of the Light

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is strong...

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Paulo CoelhoWarrior of the Light

I have no sense of humor about losing

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of lo...

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The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win ...

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I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altoget...

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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from...

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I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a c...

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It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapon...

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Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?