Warren Buffett Quotes, Loss Quotes, Trying Quotes

Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

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When faced with a loss, it is no use trying to recover what has gone. On the other hand, a great space has been opened up in your life - there it lies, empty, waiting to be filled with something new. At the moment of one's loss, contradictory as this might seem, one is being given a large slice of freedom.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Lying Quotes , Loss Quotes

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

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When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Grief Quotes , Loss Quotes

Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Loss Quotes , Self Quotes

He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Loss Quotes , Laughing Quotes

Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Loss Quotes , Men Quotes

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!

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Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Losing A Loved One Quotes , Loss Quotes

Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

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The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?

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On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Loss Quotes , Cities Quotes

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Grief Quotes , Loss Quotes

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Loss Quotes , Men Quotes

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

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Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Loss Quotes , Men Quotes

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Believe Quotes , Loss Quotes