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• You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.

  George Foreman

  Winning, Sight, Years

  George Foreman, Ken Abraham (2007). “God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.167, Thomas Nelson

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• Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.

  Unknown

  Giving Up, Moving, Perfection

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• War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.

  George Monbiot

  War, Numbers, People

  "We're treating soil like dirt. It's a fatal mistake, as our lives depend on it" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2015.

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• The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Long, Democracy, Advancement

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• The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Simple, Differences

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• If Christians continue to rely on emotion and ignore evidence, they will continue to lose their children to secularism. As Ravi Zacharias points out, a tepid Christianity cannot withstand a rabid secularism. And make no mistake-secularism is rabid. The world isn't neutral out there. Today's culture is becoming increasingly anti-Christian.

  Frank Turek

  Christian, Children, Mistake

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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.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Thinking, Plot, Peers

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• When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.

  Pope Francis

  Dream, Children, Ability

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• Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.

  Drayton Bird

  Men, Gains

  Drayton Bird (2007). “Commonsense Direct and Digital Marketing”, p.372, Kogan Page Publishers

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• Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Reading, Joy

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.75, SPCK

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• Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.

  George C. Scott

  Luxury, Acting, Hollywood

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• Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

  Ai Weiwei

  Fighting, Doe, Want

  "Who Is Ai Weiwei?". Interview with Lucy Birmingham, www.blouinartinfo.com. August 11, 2009.

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• I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

  Doyle Brunson

  Sports, Believe, Born

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• It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

  Courtney Love

  Stupid, Moving, Knights

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• I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Strange Places, Parent

  "Straight from the Heart". "Dateline NBC" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Progress, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1335, Delphi Classics

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• When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, Character, People

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• Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.

  Milan Kundera

  Years, Long, Noise

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• Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bridges, Rivers, Doe

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• I'd known enough flush times and lean ones to understand that money came and went. And that one day I'd also lose my looks, my seemingly boundless energy and maybe the ability to catch the eye of an attractive man and the audacity to Rollerblade. My name would be forgotten. So would bad reviews, and good ones. But loving a child is something that lasts. Long after all the rest is gone, that's what endures.

  Joyce Maynard

  Children, Eye, Men

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• Names for bands lose their meaning after a little while. They become a series of sounds that you associate with people in music, really. The most important thing about choosing a name for a band is if you can imagine forty-thousand people screaming it in unison.

  Brian Molko

  Names, People, Important

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• Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

  Brian Tracy

  Creativity, Ideas, Needs

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• When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

  Jim Harrison

  Children, Bird, Wish

  Jim Harrison (2007). “True North”, p.139, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Some feel that you lose your independence if you don't let your mind just wander where it wants to, if you try to control it. But that is not the case. If your mind is proceeding in the correct way, one already has the correct opinion. But if your mind is proceeding in an incorrect way, then it's necessary, definitely, to exercise control.

  Dalai Lama

  Exercise, Independence, Mind

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• We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.

  Anais Nin

  Lonely, Writing, Journey

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

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