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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)
Recession is when your neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. SeeTruman 868:38.
— 1980 Election campaign speech, Jersey City,1 Sep.
Por las verdades se pierden los amigos, e per las non dezir se fazen desamigos. Telling the truth loses you friends; not telling it gains you enemies.
Juan Ruiz— c.1330 Libro de Buen Amor, stanza165.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
john ciardi— Saturday Review, Volume 49 (1966)
He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!
james freeman clarke— P. 563. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
colette— Speech on being elected to the Belgian Academy. as quoted in “Lady of Letters” Pt. 4, Earthly Paradise (1966) ed. Robert Phelps
[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.
brian klug— "The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism". 'The Nation'. posted January 15, 2004 (February 2, 2004 issue). Retrieved on January 9, 2006.
Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel’s dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.
donald phillip verene— p. 191 (Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997))
[T]he men who are successful have become the most dependent on success to attract love. When this man loses his success, he often fears he will lose love.
warren farrell— p. 172. (Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex)
Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parents loses, so lose the children.
warren farrell— p. 187. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.
Margaret Mead— p. 11 (Balinese Character, 1942)
For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.
czesław miłosz— "A Legend" (1949), trans. Czes?aw Mi?osz and Robert Hass
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
adlai stevenson— Statement quoted in news summaries (11 January 1954); as quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957) edited by James Beasley Simpson, p. 58.
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
alexis de tocqueville— Book Three, Chapter IX
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true.
— William Shakespeare Hamlet (1600–1) Polonius, Act I, scene iii.
Shame hates to have words wrapped around it. If we talk about it, it loses its grip on us.
— University of Houston, Pride Stories
A system is more than the sum of its parts; it is an indivisible whole . It loses its essential properties when it is taken apart. The elements of a system may themselves be systems, and every system may be part of a larger system.
— Ackoff (1973) "Science in the Systems Age: beyond IE, OR and MS." in: Operations Research Vol 21, pp. 664
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry .
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 3, line 75.
I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, speech (1892) (Quotes)
We have met a man this time, who either does not know when he is whipped, or who cares not if he loses his whole army.
— Southern officer, reflecting on Grant, the new Northern commander (1864).
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
— Polonius, scene iii
