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• The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Opposites, Goal

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• I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

  Dorothy Stang

  Land, Battle, Want

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• Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Heart, Degrees, Gestures

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• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Military, War, Needs

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• I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beautiful, Sports, Smart

  "The String Theory" by David Foster Wallace, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2008.

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• A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

  Hans Kung

  Church

  Die Kirche (translated by Ray and Rosalee Ockenden as The Church, 1967).

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• All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.

  Rumi

  Desire, Poison, Heal

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• I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

  M.I.A.

  Bridges, East, Want

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• When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.

  Claude Bernard

  Acceptance, Science, Names

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.

  Wendell Berry

  Sleep, Eye, Heart

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.180, Counterpoint Press

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• Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self, Age, Saving

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• I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people. The Church's teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change.

  Vicky Beeching

  Pain, Teaching, Years

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• We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Delight, Moments, Reason

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1158, Delphi Classics

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• If you go and watch the way the primitive tribes live, you will know what work is in relation to celebration. They work the whole day so they can sing and dance with abandon at night.

  Rajneesh

  Night, Watches, Way

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• No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

  Quentin Crisp

  Happiness, Effort, Enormous

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• Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Broken, Waiting

  Charles F. Stanley (2001). “A Gift of Love: Reflections for the Tender Heart”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.

  R. T. Kendall

  Desire, Desire For God

  R. T. Kendall (2008). “The Parables of Jesus: A Guide to Understanding and Applying the Stories Jesus Told”, p.53, Baker Books

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• Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Simple, Way, Faith In God

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• For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Long, Soul, Intuition

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.115, Macmillan

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• The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Novelty, Opinion, Astronomy

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• As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.

  Ibn Warraq

  Suicide, Assessment, White

  "Virgins? What virgins?" by Ibn Warraq, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

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• Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Les Mis, Habit

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

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• If you want a television, you go out and work for it and you buy it. If you want to learn about Aztec pottery, you take a course. But the relationship with God requires the active and passionate participation of you, yourself. You have to risk it. You have to abandon yourself to it. You have to leap into the fire. Nobody will do it for you; nobody can do it for you.

  Andrew Harvey

  God, Fire, Aztec

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• Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Our World, Term

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• When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Differences, Opponents, Violence

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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