#los

The man of science is a poor philosopher. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#philosopher #poor #science

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#anything #battle #chance #contest #last

Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#bit #bite #canada #comedy #everywhere

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#activism #art #conducive #corners #edges

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ↗

— George Eliot

#bear #jealousy #lose #love #more

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#close #father #home #i #living

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#bring #closer #getting #good #rational

En effet: je mourais déjà. Je venais d'apprendre cette nouvelle horrible que tout humain apprend un jour ou l'autre: ce que tu aimes, tu vas le perdre. "Ce qui t'a été donné te sera repris." Face à la découverte de cette spoliation future, il y a deux attitudes possibles: soit on décide de ne pas s'attacher aux êtres et aux choses, afin de rendre l'amputation moins douloureuse; soit on décide, au contraire, d'aimer d'autant plus les êtres et les choses, d'y mettre le paquet - "puisque nous n'aurons pas beaucoup de temps ensemble, je vais te donner en un an tout l'amour que j'aurais pu te donner en une vie. ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#loss #love #attitude

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case. ↗

— James Ellroy

#fact #hate #in fact #lose #lost

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all. ↗

— James Thurber

#lost #never #than