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In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.


James Russell Lowell

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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I gain U gain V gain All gain And no loss Is what the good believe in.
APURVA GAGLANI We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects...
ARISTOTLE I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe ...
PHILLIP ADAMS Today it was all about James. The rest of the team just followed in line.
DAVE MOUNTS If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what i...
SUZY KASSEM Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
CHILON Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
CHILTON People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W.E.B. DU BOIS Sometimes our pain drives us into discovering our destiny and who we truly are
SOTONYE ANGA Logic is rare!
What's the purpose of it and even studying math getting higher results and after...
DEYTH BANGER ...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic i...
ERNST MAYR To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to cl...
WILLIAM BELL RILEY All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular an...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER All those that claim to have founded one religious house or another will all have in the future, a c...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Gain and loss, birth and death are in the hands of God.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated speciali...
MARK TWAIN Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
DEMOCRITUS Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss
DEMOCRITUS Capitalism is all about grasping every opportunity that comes your way. It works on the principle, '...
APURVA GAGLANI Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their righ...
JAMES KENT You're going to need all that information to determine cost to calculate your gain or loss at a late...
DAVID MELLEM Everyone recognizes the goal of equal opportunity in all of our institutions. And race-neutral polic...
ADAM SCHIFF My claim to fame has always been that iconic picture that ended up in 'The San Francisco Chronic...
JOHNNY MATHIS Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.
TAI SHANG KAN YING P'IEN It was a tough loss for the boys. Benjamin Russell has a good boy's team. We were playing without ou...
MARC SIEVING We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.
JANE AUSTEN Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN Every Mortal loss is an Immortal Gain. The Ruins of Time build Mansions in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE I count everything loss, to gain anything under the power of grace in Jesus Christ.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.
QUARIUS As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.
QUARIUS There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ From what we can tell, there's not much share gain or loss going on,
ANDY BRYANT It doesn't matter to me, I'm not selling. That's a paper gain (or loss).
BOB KRAFT The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the m...
GOLDIE HAWN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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ERIC HOFFER The report assumed that production loss would be uniform across all categories, but in South Africa ...
IRAJ ABEDIAN Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To gain all one might have to risk all.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor u...
ISAAC NEWTON Every loss is a gain.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not ...
JAMES BALDWIN No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while...
ERICA JONG We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equa...
CONNOR FRANTA Valley's coach told me they beat Russell County by only a few points last week, and Russell County b...
BILL LUTZ Palm Springs' loss is Phoenix's gain,
RICK DANIELS Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be su...
CORY BOOKER At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long...
ETHAN HAWKE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is but a shadow and thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek.
LOED OF THE RINGS John Russell, (president) of Russell Development Inc. has been instrumental in making the move downt...
JAMES BEAN Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.
LYNDA HERNANDEZ The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
KEANU REEVES Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their...
EILEEN CADDY The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
JENNIFER NIVEN If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
J. PETIT-SENN You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat...
TIFFANY GARLAND Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have never been contained except I made the prison.
MARY EVANS The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.

“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad.
JENNIFER NIVEN You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
JENNIFER NEVIN If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him...
JENNIFER NIVEN That night will be huge. We don't have all the details yet, but one of them will race in the modifie...
BRUCE HINES Nice to meet ya, shank," the boy said. "Welcome to the Glade.
JAMES DASHNER No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which...
ERIC LIU Only at loss will you know gain.
LESTER LIM JUN KAI All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, li...
JOHN LOCKE We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life a...
THURGOOD MARSHALL Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
All which I took from the...
FRANCIS G. THOMPSON To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a s...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN Wetland loss was part of the process, but it was always accompanied by wetland gain.
ROBERT TWILLEY The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have giv...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink o...
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot b...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mi...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And i...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All kin' o' smily round the lips, / An' teary round the lashes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which n...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Light is the symbol of truth
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in ma...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrift...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course Yea, ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tool...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, th...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach ful...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The shadow of a mighty name.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Patience revels in misfortunes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL