Quotes 261 till 280 of 373.
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The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56 -
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
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The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
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The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
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There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
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There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.
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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
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They would say, he answered, that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
That Hideous Strength (1945) Ch. 7 : The Pendragon, section 2 -
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
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Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
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Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
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