For many, embracing the ideology of Osama bin Laden or ISIS allowed them to become the heroes of their own story as well as actors in a cosmic crusade. For others, a 'cognitive opening' to militant Islam was often precipitated by a personal disappointment or loss.
Peter Bergen
DisappointmentStoryLossPersonal
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson
DiversityProcessLossNowWill
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
FearPowerLossCorruptCorrupts
I remember going to a funeral at a very fundamentalist church, and I just had to get out of there. I went out in the parking lot and just sobbed. I think there was a sense of loss of that little boy not knowing if he was right or wrong. Everything I grew up with I had to walk away from.
Wes Craven
WalkThinkChurchLossNot Knowing
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
Pervez Musharraf
SocietyLossDoubtLostSaidDead
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
Alvin Toffler
DaughterAgeLossTragedyDisease
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
Virginia Foxx
HistoryBestPastWarLossLook
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain
PowerTimeSpiritualEnergyLoss
I'm honest. If someone asks about my weight loss, I tell them I have five people working on me, plus there's Photoshop. I tell them I can't eat everything and look good. I was unhealthy when I was fat, and now I'm a normal body type. I'm not special; I'm just an actress, and boys and girls are intelligent enough to recognise that.
Sonam Kapoor
GoodPeopleMeFatSomeoneLoss
My future is about the joy of loving those around me, of being with the people who are still here and not just mourning my loss.
Terri Irwin
FutureJoyPeopleMeLossLoving
There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.
Scott Kelly
LoveTimeCareLossConnectionWant
It's very difficult to explain to a normal working citizen the implications of what $18 trillion in debt means and what it means when the Federal Reserve buys the U.S. Treasury bonds to finance our loss every month.
Steve Wynn
FinanceLossCitizenDebtDifficult
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
Sarah Fielding
ImaginationWifeLossLibertyThings
If I get too old to write, or short-term memory loss - that was the one Philip Roth was worried about - if I got to that point, that would be terrible, because everything about my life has been streaming toward writing and having something to say. That would make me feel as though I were in an iron maiden of some kind.
Thomas McGuane
LifeMemoryMeWritingMy LifeLoss
Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
FreedomLossNothingMoreCosts
I believe that the financial crisis of 2008/9 exposed more a lack of ethics and morality - especially by the financial sector - rather than a problem of regulation or criminality. There were, of course, regulatory lessons to be learned, but at heart, there was a collective loss of our moral compass.
Paul Polman
HeartEthicsBelieveLossProblem
Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.
Tim Johnson
ChangeLossWillPresidentFirst
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
Tom Clancy
LossSayRightOutGainVietnam
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli
FatherSonDriveLossBearDespair
There has been loss of steel manufacturing. Those people need jobs. Where you have to build the third airport is where people are. So you're right; if his site isn't playable, then our site is right next to it.
Richard M. Daley
PeopleLossYouSteelAirportBuild
When you overcome a profound loss, or there's some catalyst in your life that shifts everything, if you're able to take it in stride and heal, it can make for much more three-dimensional and empathetic people.
Rose McIver
LifePeopleLossYouOvercomeMore
To transfer food into a bowl from a pan that you've just cooked in, it's a loss of energy; it's wasteful. People think it's very sophisticated, I don't think it's so smart.
Marcel Wanders
FoodSmartPeopleEnergyThinkLoss
In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.
Noam Chomsky
ConflictIndependenceLossOverWho
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Russell Baker
PoetryLossAirportWillHeavyMost
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