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When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.