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- Talking perceptions, people. Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses? I lost someone today and the funny thing is, I don't even know who she was.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Lovers and Madmen, 1994
- Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992
- Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), A preface to "Paradise Lost"
- A friend in power is a friend lost.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
- A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. - Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)
- He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.
- Chinese Proverb
- The art of being bored is lost.
- Ted Klauber, Senior Executive, FCB Worldwide
- Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?
- Bible, Matthew v. 13.
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