A Quote by James Buchan

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

James Buchan

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James Buchan
British - Novelist
Born: June 11, 1954

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Losing close relatives doesnt get any easier, really, but losing your parents is the big deal.

Rick Stein

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Justin Hartley

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I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.

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