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“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”
Seneca
“Gain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.”
Bill Clinton
“Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.”
Epicurus
“The loss of the battle of Waterloo was the salvation of France”
Thomas Jefferson
“The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.”
Edward O. Wilson
“Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.”
William Shakespeare
“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
James Madison
“What shocked me most was that I could no longer touch him - the swiftness of this loss was like falling off a cliff”
Catherine Bush
“Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”
Marilyn Monroe
