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• It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Writing, Character, Firsts

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• Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

  Blaise Pascal

  May, Cold, Appreciated

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

  Alexandra Kosteniuk

  Dad, Army, Things In Life

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• Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

  Martha Gellhorn

  World, Soup, Lucky

  "Collier's", Volume 115, p. 156, Crowell-Collier Publishing Compan, 1945.

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• Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Elements, Splits

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• Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

  Francisco Goya

  Mother, Wisdom, Art

  Francisco de Goya, Peter Russell (2016). “Delphi Complete Paintings of Francisco de Goya (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

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• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Success, Peace, Freedom

  United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4, February 15, 1954.

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• Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

  Hermann Hesse

  Travel, Journey, Years

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• One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

  Jon Kyl

  Military, Marine, Soldier

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• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

  Charles Sumner

  Country, Rights, Political

  Charles Sumner (1876). “The Works of Charles Sumner”

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• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  W. H. Auden

  Birthday, Time, Money

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• Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Country, Israel, Ideas

  "Women Don't Belong In Ground Combat". eagleforum.org. June 01, 2005.

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• As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  God, Philosophy, Winning

  "Interview with Neale Donald Walsch, Educator, Lecturer and Bestselling Author of Conversations with God". Interview with Janice Hughes and Dennis Hughes, www.shareguide.com.

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• Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

  Gary North

  Biblical, Blessing, Winning

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• I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

  John Pople

  College, Awards, October

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• Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.

  David Eisenberg

  Views, Physicians, Needs

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• The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

  Russell Banks

  War, United States, Cold

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

  Tim Robbins

  Film

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• My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

  Halle Berry

  Whole Life, Whole

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• A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.

  Zig Ziglar

  Taken, Commitment, Goal

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.173, Pelican Publishing

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• Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

  William Bartram

  Bird, Tribes, Young

  William Bartram (1793). “Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, etc. [With plates and a map.]”, p.23

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• Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.

  Dalai Lama

  Emotional, Clouds, Sky

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• The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Pain, Struggle

  "Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, Interviews Oprah Winfrey Live Online". Interview with Sheryl Sandberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

  Haile Selassie

  Dream, Philosophy, Eye

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dog, Rain, Pet

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