LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election".
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
The biggest cost in making a sofa is the labor/time, thus why recovering one cost almost just as much as a new one.
In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.
Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.
Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.
Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.
The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.
When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.
The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.
Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.
The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state.
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
The world that is a book is devoured bya reader who is a letter in the world's text; thus a circular metaphor is created for the endlessness of reading; We are what we read.
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.
Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see.
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.
People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.
Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.
If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.
Every body has mind power, I have learned to direct it toward my body and thus influence the cold and heating-system of my metabolism.
But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.
Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives
If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.
Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.
The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
My mother didn't baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don't take 'no' for an answer.
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before
I truly believe that a woman who knows herself, and who thus knows her true value, can never be frightened into being co-opted.
We're also more affected by aspirational signals in an offline world where it is more difficult to "hide" and thus indirectly increases the influence from others.
Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.
Fibers made on Earth, and thus made in the presence of gravity, have impurities and defects in the glass that adversely affect transmission speed and quality.
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.
I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.
Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.
Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.
Thus let me hold thee to my heart,
And every care resign:
And we shall never, never part,
My life-my all that's mine!
As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.
The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.
All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.
I like challenges, and thus, I keep trying something different and new every time. And these challenges and interests turn into passion.
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.
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