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Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

Leo Tolstoy

Ideas, Perfect, Interesting

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Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

Virginia Woolf

Integrity, Facts, Process

Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.95, Oxford University Press

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Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Roger Babson

Character, Judgement, Trying

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We are going to win and the industrial West is going to lose out; there's not much you can do about it because the reasons for your failure are within yourselves.

Konosuke Matsushita

Winning, West, Reason

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Live in the world without any idea of what is going to happen. Whether you are going to be a winner or a loser, it doesn't matter. Death takes everything away. Whether you lose or win is immaterial. The only thing that matters, and has always been, is how you played the game. Did you enjoy it? - the game itself - then each moment is of joy. You never sacrifice the moment for the future.

Rajneesh

Sacrifice, Winning, Games

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The only thing you can lose is ... your connection to who-you-are.

Esther Hicks

Connections, Who You Are

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When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Anais Nin

Writing, Fire, Color

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

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Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself.

Walter Russell

Self

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Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

Albert Schweitzer

Disappointment, Heart, Waiting

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Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.

Alfie Kohn

People, Psychology, Rewards

Alfie Kohn (2000). “The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Robert Higgs

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For years President Obama has been saying that no one would lose their healthcare plan. Now the White House has admitted that in fact many people will lose their plans. But there is a way to keep the great coverage you have. Just become a member of Congress. Then the taxpayers pay for the whole thing.

Jay Leno

Years, White, People

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To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

D. A. Carson

Generations, Next, Assuming

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God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

Francois Fenelon

True Friend, Lying, Voice

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Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

W. Somerset Maugham

Loss, Littles, Painful

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How is a redneck divorce similar to a tornado?
You know that somewhere, somehow, someone is gonna lose a trailer.

Jeff Foxworthy

Divorce, Redneck, Tornadoes

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The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.

A. R. Rahman

Spiritual, Giving, Perspective

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Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward - like the Koch brothers - to say, 'You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I'm going to lose a fortune!'

Bill Maher

Brother, Talking, Greed

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How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Bill Maher

Republican, Hell, Break

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I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

James D. Watson

Law, Smoking, Brain

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You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.

Felix Dennis

Nothing To Lose, Advantage, Upbringing

Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.28, Penguin

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I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.

Thom Yorke

Kids, Listening, Cracks

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Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

Lesley Hazleton

Suffering, Accepted, Terror

Lesley Hazleton (1985). “The Right to Feel Bad”, Ballantine Books

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Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Katharine Hepburn

Fun, Writing, Sight

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Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

Rick Santorum

Careers, Boring, Politician

"Santorum Revives Bush Coalition" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2012.

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