"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

Hughes, Charles Evans on freedom
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on compensation
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"Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing."

Symons, Red on winners and winning   

"Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on slavery
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"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

Devlin, Bernadette on sacrifice
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"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."

Havel, Vaclav on reason   

"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on losers and losing
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"Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing."

White, Elwyn Brooks on vision   

"If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised   

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

Landor, Walter Savage on goals   

"Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything."

Csonka, Larry on winners and winning
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"He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all."

Cervantes, Miguel De on courage
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"As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain."

Quarius on materialism
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"Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part."

Pope, Alexander on death
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"The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on disasters
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"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."

Twain, Mark on losers and losing
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"No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us."

Seneca on evil   

"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."

Democritus on dishonesty
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"A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor."

Proverb on honor
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"Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss."

Riley, Pat on losers and losing
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"We die as often as we lose a friend."

Syrus, Publilius on friends and friendship
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"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."

Bush, Barbara on success
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