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• To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Principles, Impossible

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.129, Vintage

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• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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• The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

  Abu Bakr

  Fall, Humility, Aggravation

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• Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Broken, Magic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Appreciation, Regret, Yoga

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2010). “Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know”, p.2, Conari Press

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• Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Generosity, Giving, Facts

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.758, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

  Rebecca West

  Passion, Destiny, Soul

  Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”

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• Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

  Pope John Paul II

  Depression, God, Spiritual

  "Force of Nature". Book by Dana Mentink (p. 215), December 3, 2013.

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• Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

  Vannevar Bush

  Faith, Stress, Knowledge

  "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.

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• Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Divine Comedy, Inferno, Gates Of Hell

  Dante Alighieri (2014). “Dante's Inferno [translated]: Modern English Translation”, p.21, BookBaby

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• Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Cups, Temperance, Drinkers

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• Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Cities, People

  Dante Alighieri (1846). “The vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary. With notes”, p.18

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• No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

  Michael Scheuer

  Dog, Exercise, Thinking

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• I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.

  Nicole Kidman

  Thinking, Circles, Roles

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Mar 23, 2016

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• I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fashion, Hate, Fall

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• Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Endure, Eternal

  Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (2010). “The Divine Comedy”, p.210, Bibliolis Books

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• Isn't it interesting how men 'leave' their families, but women 'abandon' their children?

  Susan Powter

  Children, Men, Interesting

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• How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hate, Way, Mastery

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the environment is that we are dealing with incredibly complex, evolving systems, and we usually are not certain how best to proceed. Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Personality, Unhappy

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• The brain is a stubborn organ.  Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs.  This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.

  Andrew B. Newberg

  Religious, People, Profound

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• My reason taught me that I could not have made one of my own qualities - they were forced upon me by Nature; that my language, religion, and habits were forced upon me by Society; and that I was entirely the child of Nature and Society; that Nature gave the qualities and Society directed them. Thus was I forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught by man.

  Robert Owen

  Children, Men, Errors

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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• Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Expectations, Needs, Pandas

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• Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Vices, Done

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.101, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Ideas, World, Emergencies

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Miracle, Faces

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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