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• You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Pain, Levels

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• The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Evil, Imagination

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

  Winston Churchill

  Real, Gentleman, Substance

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• In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.

  James Wolfensohn

  Skills, Development, Culture

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• Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Kind, Transgression

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• Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.

  Alan Cohen

  Success, Sports, Heart

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• After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is to it. You have to let it go, move on and just work harder.

  Peyton Manning

  Moving, Hard Work, Athlete

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• He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.

  Geoffrey Boycott

  Athlete, Men, Play

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• After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, Humility

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

  Brad Pitt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Adversity, Suffering, Resurrection

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• Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Feel Good, Victory, Losing

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interveiw, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Winning, Player, Self

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interveiw, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against slavery. In the long-run, a million horrid deaths would be amply repaid in the cause of humanity. Great God! how I should like to see the greatest curse on earth - slavery - abolished!

  Charles Darwin

  Death, Running, Science

  "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin".

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• A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.

  Juvenal

  Medicine, Mind, Sound Body

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 356, 1890.

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• If you fall off track and scarf down an unhealthy meal, that's fine. Eat better the next meal-not the next day.

  Nina Davuluri

  Fall, Next Day, Track

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• But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

  George Arnold

  Beer, Love Is, Nuts

  George Arnold, “Beer”

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• All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement.

  Jerry Lynch

  Athlete, Skills, Improvement

  Jerry Lynch (2001). “Creative Coaching”, p.192, Human Kinetics

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• All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and hence through the influence of the predominant use or permanent disuse of any organ; all these are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise, provided that the acquired modifications are common to both sexes, or at least to the individuals which produce the young.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Sex, Science, Race

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• If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Atheist, Knowing, If There Is A God

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• I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Life, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

  David Starr Jordan

  War, Science, Men

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• Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Men, Race

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• Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Men, Evil

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Memories, Grief, Grieving

  Edwin S. Shneidman (1995). “Voices of Death”, Kodansha Globe

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