"We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us."

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"We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us."

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"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)"

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"It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

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"If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss Author

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"Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost, cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

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"May be you are gone,but that doesn't make me come back."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table."

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"Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs."

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"The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition."

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"I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan."

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"We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done."

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"Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward."

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"I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'."

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"My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow."

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"Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble."

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