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There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong, if a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut, if he bets wrong, he loses, if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money, it's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.
peter schiff— Authors@Google: Peter Schiff (2009)
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.
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.
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
— Recalled on his death,14 Jul1965.
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.
Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever
masiela lusha— Statement at the Masiela Lusha board page
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))
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold— "Self-Dependence" (1852), lines 31-32.
[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)
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
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Michel de Montaigne— Book I, ch. 38. Of Solitude
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
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
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.
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)
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
— Phrixus, Frag. 927. (Quotes)
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
— Polonius, scene iii
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
ernest gellner— In Words and Things (1959)
