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Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

John Yoo

Enemy, Doe, Different

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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

Dan Simmons

Moving, Careers, Truth Is

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the more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.

Ayya Khema

Ill Will, Hatred, Meditation

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Gaining people's trust might be harder than gaining all creation. But, what is harder than gaining people's trust is having to abandon them.

Queen Seondeok of Silla

Drama, People, Might

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I have therefore come to the opinion that the most reasonable recourse for the humanization of society and its institutions is to abandon them and begin again to build a society with a just, equitable and compassionate economy with justice, equality, and reverence for all life insured by the goals and forms of all its institutions.

Manitonquat

Justice Equality, Goal, Opinion

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In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar. Then it traces a genealogy. It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods. The whole spirit must become incarnate and explore the possible.

Adrienne Monnier

Bible, Book, Destiny

Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.376, U of Nebraska Press

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What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.

Sheila Cassidy

Prayer, People, Boredom

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Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

Toni Morrison

Memories, Home, People

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From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

George Orwell

Book, Writing, Should Have

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

Theodore Millon

Feelings, Abandoned, Response

Theodore Millon, Carrie M. Millon, Sarah E. Meagher, Seth D. Grossman, Rowena Ramnath (2012). “Personality Disorders in Modern Life”, p.481, John Wiley & Sons

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Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Travel, New York, Home

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If you continue to dream, if you never abandon your dream, it will come true in the end.

Junsu

Dream, Tvxq, Ends

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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Thomas Jefferson

Achieve, Security, Loses

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Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

Daniel Alarcon

Country, Land, People

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America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.

Dennis Prager

Believe, Islamic, America

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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.

Bill Nye

Law, Goal, Conflict

Source: biologos.org

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You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Ideas, Enemy, Democracy

Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

Fran Lebowitz

Fantasy, Bumper Sticker, Settling

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To abandon yourself to rage is often to bring upon yourself the fault of another.

Pope Agapetus I

Anger, Faults, Rage

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When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.

Yoshida Shoin

Loyalty, Patriotic, Uprising

"Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. IX, 1938.

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Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

Subhash Kak

Betrayal, Self, Careers

Subhash Kak (1994). “The astronomical code of the Ṛgveda”

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God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.

Ernest Legouve

Promise, Tears, Serious

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History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick

Edward Hallett Carr

Sick, Process Of Change, Our Society

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It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favor, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.

Yohji Yamamoto

Strong, Heart, Ideas

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In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

James Wright

Blue, Laughing, Tree

James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Wesleyan University Press

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