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• There are standards. I like to be prepared, I guess I should say - that type of pressure of, "All right, now you go with abandon," you know. Now when you're in it, you let go of all the things - that's what happens when you're onstage.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Letting Go, Pressure, Should

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

  Kurt Andersen

  Honesty, Political, Intellectual

  "When Good News Feels Bad". archive.frontpagemag.com. February 17, 2005.

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• There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn't require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.

  Michael Josephson

  Two, Goal, Risk

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• A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Men, Two, Abandoned

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• Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory.

  Angela Merici

  Inspiration, Honor, Church

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• Never abandon your vision. Keep reaching to further your dreams.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Dream, Vision, Reaching

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• Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

  Richard Flanagan

  Love Is, Glimpse, Cease

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• Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.

  Barbara Sher

  Dream, Jobs, Real

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.53, Dell

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• Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either stick to them or abandon the faith.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Christian, People, Church

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• It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

  Tony Benn

  Queens, Stamps, Obvious

  Tony Benn (1987). “Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-67”, Hutchinson Radius

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• While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.

  Roger Ebert

  Secret, Despair, Plot

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.274, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I don't consider myself a shy person necessarily, but there's something about getting under the skin of a character and allowing you an abandon or a sense of courage that you would never have in your own life.

  Cillian Murphy

  Character, Skins, Shy

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

  Isaac Watts

  Spiritual, Secret, Decay

  Isaac Watts (1734). “Sermons on Various Subjects, Divine and Moral: With a Sacred Hymn Suited to Each Subject. Design'd for the Use of Christian Families as Well as for the Hours of Devout Retirement”, p.191

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• Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Disappointment, Heart, Waiting

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• It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social committments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical.

  Alan Watts

  Weed, Taken, Numbers

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• Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Allies, Immigration

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• I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Ideas, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Shadow, Looks

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• Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

  Dogen

  Home, Eye, Land

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• I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.

  Andrew Zimbalist

  Baseball, Mistake, Thinking

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• The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

  Marvin Bell

  Writing, Discovery, Firsts

  "What You See Is What You Get: Marvin Bell in Conversation". Interview with Haines Eason, www.poets.org. August 20, 2009.

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• Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Church, Essentials

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• Just because someone's older and you think they're cooler doesn't mean you should abandon your real friends.

  Alex Mack

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.

  Henry Makow

  Roles, Males, Female

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• ...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

  Fred Brooks

  Running, Strong, Creativity

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