Lose
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless.
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas — stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
