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• Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Birthday, Self, Achievement

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• Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Love, Self, Universe

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• We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Country, Law, Government

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• Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Cutting, August

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.128, Macmillan

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• I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Kissing, Belief

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.14, RosettaBooks

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• I wait.  Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight.  I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness.  Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Loneliness, Night

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.15, University of Arizona Press

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• Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.

  Mitt Romney

  Ideas, Effort, Growth

  Statement by Governor Mitt Romney on the Current Environmental Debate, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. February 23, 2007.

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• Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Heart, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.399, Library of America

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• Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Falling In Love, Games, Play

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• We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Brave, Full Potential, Half

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Moving, Heart, Names

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.39, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process.

  Wangari Maathai

  Diversity, Needs, Earth

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Volunteer, Empowering

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• There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

  Seth Godin

  Acceptance, Organization, Ideas

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• Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.

  Fred Barnes

  Fall, Men, Fear Mongering

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• I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

  Douglas Bader

  Trust, Loyalty, Character

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• Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.

  Van Jones

  Successful, Long, Principles

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• The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.

  Dean Koontz

  Depth, Belief, Greater

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.462, Bantam

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• Don't shut down your emotions. Embrace them. Your emotions are your internal compass telling you whether or not you are on track. Use them to help cultivate your passions or motivate you to change situations and circumstances that hold you back from achieving your goals.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Change, Passion

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 03, 2011

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• When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.

  Cheri Huber

  Children, Inspiration, Bravery

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• Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

  Harry Reid

  Country, Light, Racism

  "Harry Reid’s Non-Gaffe" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 10, 2010.

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• Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Heart, Self

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear nor understand. But the man who hears and understands we call mad, and flee from him. Thus the nights pass, and we live in unawareness; and the days greet us and embrace us. But we live in constant dread of day and night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Night, Men

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• We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

  John Ashcroft

  Scary, May, Piety

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• Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it to you who that somebody is.

  Robert Byrd

  America, Scary, Soul

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