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"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."
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"I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg."

"I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats."

"Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying."

"I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else."

"I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale."

"I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points."

"While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass."

"What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction."

"Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip."

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

"Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace, which leads to the impairment of natural functions and, in the long run, of the slower processes called structure. For each individual human being, the main practical problems are these: How can I prevent my ego from eclipsing the inner light, synteresis, scintilla animae, and so perpetuating the state of unregenerate illusion and blindness? And these practical problems remain unchallenged, even if we abandon the notion of an entelechy or physiological intelligencer, of an atman or pneuma and think, instead, in terms [of] systems..."

"And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together."

"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind."

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
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