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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Business, Real

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Isaac Asimov

Future, Important, Humanity

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor, Means, Won

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Jean-Paul Sartre

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
Jose Mourinho

Good, Christmas, Father

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Charles Stanley

Fear, Failure, Confidence

We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.
Hillary Clinton

Money, Children, Job

I have won elections and I have lost elections.
Hillary Clinton

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
Brooke Shields

Life, Important, Smoking

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
William Butler Yeats

Through, Sometimes, Walk

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Marcel Proust

Men, Freedom, Science

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George Orwell

Battle, Won, Battles

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Laurence J. Peter

Loved, Week, Laundry

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer

End, Earth, Capacity

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
Princess Diana

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon

Trying, Between, Comparison

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman

Off, Train, Track

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Friends, Opinion

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Good, True

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Feeling, Soul

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara Kingsolver

War, Pain, Spiritual

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
Pablo Neruda

Him, Play, Child

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman

Good, Same, Spirit

If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
Taylor Swift

Control, Yelling

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead

Parents, Long, Him

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri

Life, Dark, Within

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
Epictetus

Wife, Child, Dead

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert

Happiness, Good, Health

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Marianne Williamson

Power, State, Natural

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
Steven Biko

Change, Truth, Realize

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