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• No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Scrutiny, Closest

  Henry Peach Robinson (1869). “Pictorial Effect in Photography: Being Hints on Composition and Chiaro-oscuro for Photographers. To which is Added a Chapter on Combination Printing”, p.198

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• I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

  Jean Piaget

  Mother, Attitude, Reality

  Richard Isadore Evans, Jean Piaget (1973). “Dialogue with Jean Piaget”, Praeger Publishers

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• Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

  Paul de Man

  Desire, Wipe, Mark

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• It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true.

  Judith Martin

  Order, Guests, Matter

  Judith Martin (1989). “Miss Manners' guide for the turn-of-the-millennium”

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• The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

  Diana Krall

  Song, Redneck, Together

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• The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

  Winston Churchill

  Air, Enemy, Defense

  "The World Crisis". Volume I,

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• In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

  King Hussein I

  Struggle, Here I Am, World

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• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

  Edmund Burke

  Lying, Justice, Abortion

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.230

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• Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love Is, Looking For Love, Another Chance

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.

  Frida Kahlo

  Return, Exit, Joyful

  Elena Poniatowska, Frida Kahlo, Carla Stellweg (1992). “Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced”, Vintage

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• What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Black, Storm, Littles

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• It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Unseen, Accessories

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• -….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Play, Stage

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• An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Inspirational, Travel, Journey

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• For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Memories, Wind, Sailor

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• There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.

  Ellen Terry

  Skills, Circles, Differences

  Ellen Terry (Dame) (19??). “The story of my life”

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• The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

  Tom Wopat

  Education, Country, Rocks

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• My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

  Gene Tierney

  Swag, Hollywood, Walks

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure.

  Kenneth Lay

  Problem, Economy, No Problem

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• Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Voice, Misery, Lost

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

  Sean Connery

  Accents

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• The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Decision, Leaving, Shadow

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

  Jerry Garcia

  Movie, Cousin, Grateful

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• Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sadness, Reality, Men

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