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- Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
- Pierre Auguste Renoir
- Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.
- Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
- Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.
- David Chambless
- Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost!
- M. Navratilova
- The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.
- Jeremy Rifkin
- The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
- The only paradise is paradise lost.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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