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The world is a game of chess; the loser loses and the winner wins.
jamal al-din al-afghani— As quoted in Jam? al-D?n al-Afgh?ni: A Muslim intellectual (1984) by Anwar Moazzam, p. 3
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.
dana gioia— "The Anonymity of the Regional Poet: Ted Kooser," from Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992)
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
alexis de tocqueville— Book Three, Chapter X
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
— Karl Jaspers (1933) 'Man in the Modern Age. p. 128
A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
Michel de Montaigne— Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Of Solitude.
As for why it's not particularly smart -- whether he wins or loses -- is because he just called a whole bunch of attention to some silly internet meme that clearly wants attention. Beck would have been better off just ignoring it. Instead, in legitimizing it by trying to take it down, many more people become aware of the meme -- and may start calling attention to situations where Beck (and others) make use of such tactics.
— Masnick, Michael (September 8, 2009). "Glenn Beck Didn't Rape And Murder Anyone... But He Doesn't Want Websites Discussing It". Techdirt (www.techdirt.com). Retrieved on 2009-10-04.
When technology makes it perfect, art loses.
brian eno— As quoted in Wired (January 1999)
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold— 1852 Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Self-Dependence', l.31-2.
For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
algernon charles swinburne— 1865 Atlanta in Calydon, chorus,'When the hounds of spring'.
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. See Reagan 680:55.
harry s. truman— 1958 In the Observer,13 Apr.
This, we have to say it, remember this is just a football game, no matter who wins or loses. An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all of The Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead ... on ... arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that newsflash, which in duty bound, we had to take.
howard cosell— Monday Night Football, December 8, 1980.
How can he [today’s writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.
ralph waldo emerson— “Goethe; or, the Writer,” p. 274
When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine — like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.
mary mccarthy— How I Grew (1987)
He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.
phaedrus— Book I, fable 4, line 1.
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
Anatol Rapoport— Strategy and Conscience. Harper & Row, 1964. p. 195
In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.
james branch cabell— Coth, in Book Four : Coth at Porutsa, Ch. XX : Idolatry of an Alderman
"A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver." "It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education."
paulo freire— Chapter 1 (Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970))
Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.
james anthony froude— Letter IX (The Nemesis of Faith (1849))
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
george orwell— Coming Up for Air, Part 3, Ch. 1
So is the song of life being sung/ By us and by all the living beings/ A melodious and harmonious song,/ Where the singer loses her own self/ And absorbs in the wonderful harmony of the song!/ An almost ecstatic experience.
kuruvilla pandikattu— Life: Relish It!
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.
leo tolstoy— VI (A Letter to a Hindu (1908))
It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 9 (Phineas Redux (1874))
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
— Horace Walpole[ ]
[W]hen anti-Semitism is everywhere, it is nowhere. And when every anti-Zionist is an anti-Semite, we no longer know how to recognize the real thing--the concept of anti-Semitism loses its significance.
— "The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism". 'The Nation'. posted January 15, 2004 (February 2, 2004 issue). Retrieved on January 9, 2006.
The powers of the placebo are so strong that it may be morally wrong to call homeopathy a lie because the moment you say it then a placebo falls to pieces and loses its power.
— Stephen Fry (2010) In: "Last Chance to Think" Interview by Kylie Sturgess in Skeptical Inquirer. Vol 34 (1)
The powers of the placebo are so strong that it may be morally wrong to call homeopathy a lie because the moment you say it then a placebo falls to pieces and loses its power.
— Stephen Fry (2010) In: "Last Chance to Think" Interview by Kylie Sturgess in Skeptical Inquirer. Vol 34 (1)
The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
— Freeman (1948) , p. 169
When man tries to fight nature, he invariably loses. Nature invariably wins. It is only when man is wise enough to live with nature that he really gets anywhere.
— Elmer T. Peterson, Cities Are Abnormal (1946)
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
dwight Eisenhower— First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
