It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
Expanded credit access has helped households maintain living standards when suffering job loss, illness, or other unexpected contingencies.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.
We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.
I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved by both the pace of social change there - the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land - and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces.
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.
It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.
Batman and the Flash have a whole lot in common behind the mask. They've both experienced loss, know forensic science, and are both a bit introverted. In 'Flashpoint,' Thomas Wayne thinks Barry is crazy, but Barry thinks Thomas is crazy. It'll be really fun seeing those two trying to figure things out.
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
There has been loss of steel manufacturing. Those people need jobs. Where you have to build the third airport is where people are. So you're right; if his site isn't playable, then our site is right next to it.
As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
I never think about losing. That's why it's so hard to accept a loss.
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
