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There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums. -- Michael J. Fox
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized. -- Emile Durkheim
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?' -- Tom Hiddleston
Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates -- Michael Jordan
There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat. -- Mick Cornett
No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned. -- Frederick Lenz

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