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“The man who fears losing has already lost.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Better to mock the game than to play and lose.” George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
“Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake: he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Perfect gain is the best of all; but if that is impossible, then the next best gain is perfect losing.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn’t require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door.” Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men

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