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This defeat hurts because of the way it happened and because it broke our record of victories.


Lionel Messi

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ANSHIKA JAIN Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.
PELE Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.
DANIEL JOHNS Do you think I'm pretty?”

He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I...
RICHELLE MEAD More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I think it hurts because Brent is our best defender.
MATT DOHERTY I'm opposed to this initiative on every level because it hurts the priorities our community cares mo...
GAVIN NEWSOM It's a shame this happened. It hurts everybody.
DEBORAH HALL It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than man...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM What we assumed was it broke up because it sank. Now we know it sank because it broke up.
DAVID BROWN It hurts my heart, because I know it hurts her at night.
DR. MAKEBA EARST The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
NICHOLAS SPARKS None of us knew the family. It just broke our hearts to hear what happened to them.
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CRAIG MASBACK The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it h...
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BONNIE REED Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
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JOEL MILLER I guess it hurts a little more because this is my last game.
BRANDON MARSHALL Love hurts because it holds hearts
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KEN LUCAS There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there i...
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ERIK HEIMANN It's troublesome that Wall Street is looking at this. It hurts the company. But because of what the ...
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KIERSTEN WHITE It means a lot because of how long the record stood. The record gives magnitude because we won South...
BRIAN BROOKS There are many victories worse than a defeat.
GEORGE ELIOT We know who you are because of it Decide who you will become in spite of it. Define it. Defeat it.
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SAMIYA BASHIR And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to f...
JULIA HOBAN It hurts. It hurts whenever one of our heroes comes home, but not alive. This is the first one (sold...
FELIX RODRIGUEZ I cannot say who is better between Messi and Ronaldo. Because they are different players. Both are s...
ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI This lot would be full. That lot would be full. It hurts me because of the things we might have to c...
CINDY MILLER I think this game was one of our hardest fought victories of the year. Almond's record doesn't indic...
BRUCE WILLIAMS It's a nice thing to put out of your mind without necessarily forgetting, because every day it hurts...
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JEANIENE FROST Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.
RACHEL HUNTER This happened because of the poor workmanship when they built our houses - the rainwater pours in th...
PETER ABRAHAMS Everything that happened, broke our family. What he did, he has to pay for it. He took the life of s...
JOSE GARCIA She parted her lips as though she were going to scold him, but, after a moment of sitting with her m...
KELSEY BRICKL Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.
RICK RIORDAN They will recover their costs because the record reveals corrupt individuals within a corrupt agency...
LYNN HUGHES This has happened because of international pressure, and that is good,
ANNA LINDH When a heart broke because of love , it feels like entire life has been broken !
MOHD ISA BIN AHMAD Our record is pretty much toast, ... That's OK. Something tells me it will probably get broke again.
JAY BUHNER I panicked. It hurts because these were pure-bred birds.
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ARIANNA HUFFINGTON The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
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JAMES C. DOBSON It doesn't cost to be happy. And I'm glad because I'm broke.
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IAN MACKAYE I don't even look at it that way because of our situation.
MATT PAINTER Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our countr...
OMAR BONGO Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
DR. SEUSS Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
DR. SEUSS Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.
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JOE WERNER It isn't exactly a huge success on our part, because the spying has already happened.
JOSH SONNENFELD It was a terrible defeat but, for us, it never happened.
CARLOS QUEIROZ It's a real tough loss. This one hurts as much as any of them do, because it was a game where we had...
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BILLY CHAMBERLAIN We're leaving early because Johnny Bench just broke our spirits,
DENNIS WHITE It makes me think of Karl. It was long overdue to record exclusively in Minneapolis because we hadn'...
DAVE PIRNER This one really hurts, because we didn't want them to win the division on our field. This season fee...
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VIRAT KOHLI I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l...
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KILROY J. OLDSTER It's weird. Weird because it not only happened, it happened to him.
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LIONEL SUGGS Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of wha...
LIONEL SUGGS Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason...
LIONEL SUGGS I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was in...
LIONEL RICHIE My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
LIONEL RICHIE The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by thei...
LIONEL SUGGS I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open s...
LIONEL BLUE Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was...
LIONEL BLUE I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
LIONEL BLUE To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows i...
LIONEL SUGGS When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren'...
LIONEL SUGGS People lie to adapt...
LIONEL SUGGS I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people t...
LIONEL SUGGS Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi...
LIONEL SHRIVER What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I...
LIONEL BLUE I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
LIONEL BLUE The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity b...
LIONEL BLUE