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• They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

  Mario Balotelli

  Children, Never Forget, Abandonment

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• At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

  Georges Danton

  Lasts, Revolution, Perceive

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• I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Order, Paint

  "‘No, I don’t paint anymore’ – Bookmunch Classic Interview: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Peter Wild, bookmunch.wordpress.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

  Bill Griffith

  Romantic, Art, Vision

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• If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

  George Sutherland

  Comfort, May, Constitution

  Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398, (483), 1934.

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• I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

  Howard Nemerov

  Book, Firsts, Imagine

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• In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Years, Tariffs, Protection

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

  Paul Nurse

  School, My Time, Secondary School

  "Sir Paul Nurse - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 2008.

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• At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

  Boris Pasternak

  Auras, Isolation, Moments

  Doctor Zhivago Ch. 9, Sect. 3

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• Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

  Angelo Scola

  Church, Doe, World

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• The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

  Ida Tarbell

  Circles, Chance, Lost

  Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.68, Ravenio Books

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• The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.

  James T. Walsh

  Struggle, Mean, Goal

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• The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Civilization, Hunters

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.17

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• As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Love, Conceited, America

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.257, Vintage

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• Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

  Bernard Baruch

  Book, Giving, Old Friends

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• Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

  Martha Griffiths

  Law, Wife, Giving

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• We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.

  Stacie Orrico

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

  Livy

  Letting Go, Social, Existence

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• Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Courage, Morning, Betrayal

  Cormac McCarthy (1992). “All the Pretty Horses”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines help me aim a little bit, but I tend to find it's usually much more interesting, especially with the first draft, to spew it onto the page. I used to get very nervous that, if I write this first rough draft and I die that night, whoever finds it might think that I thought it was good. For me, it's much more important to get some general shape onto the page and later take all the time I need to refine it, fix it, and rewrite it.

  Paul Rudnick

  Character, Writing, Night

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• To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

  Edvard Munch

  Eye, Doors, Smell

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• Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

  Suzy Kassem

  People, Humanity, Compass

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

  Robert Byrd

  Law, Sides, Psychological

  Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

  Tony Meloto

  Poverty, Abandonment, Poor

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• Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

  Julia Roberts

  Funny, Birthday, Fall

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