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Letter "L" » lose it
«It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.»
«It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.»
«I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.»
Author: Tommy Lasorda
(Baseball Player, Coach)
| About:
Managers
| Keywords:
dives, dove, loosely, lose it, Managing, tightly
«My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing, been nothing.»
«I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.»
«It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
deeds, lose it, one to
«It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
give away, in order, lose it, normal, order
«Money is like an arm or a leg - use it or lose it»
«Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
amazement, essence, lose it, make love, mundane, passion, predictability, prisoner, surprise, The Prisoner of, withering, withers
«It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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actual, breeder, cases, chosen, corruption, cowardice, elsewhere, energies, freeman, freemen, lose it, portion, terrors, The Fear, Thousands
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