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• Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do it with safety.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, Safety

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• Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283

  Sonia

  Mind, Pages, Way

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• Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

  Antonio Damasio

  Running, Writing, Hands

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• Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Sorrow, Unhappiness

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• I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mean, Divorce, Men

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• The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

  Dick Durbin

  America, Rights, Liberty

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.

  Hugo Black

  Blow, Wind, Suffering

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

  Coco Chanel

  Thinking, Lasts, Scoundrels

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games.

  Cam Newton

  Games, Video, Playing Video Games

  "NFL Star Cam Newton Talks Fashion, Duck Dynasty, And Getting Video Bombed By His Teammates". Interview with Evan Schwartz, www.vibe.com. June 13, 2013.

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• Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.

  Patanjali

  Nice, Grief, Self

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• Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.

  Norm Phelps

  Buddhist, Compassion, Practice

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• I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.

  Michael Emerson

  Fall, Mean, Frustration

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A friend of mine is trying to do a documentary where he brings Jewish and Arab comedians to occupied territories in Israel. He wants to do shows as a way of finding some comedic common denominator. When he proposed the idea to one of the officials at the Jenin refuge camp, the guy just stared at him and said, "This is not a joke to us. We don't think that laughing is the answer."

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, Israel, Ideas

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• It is ridiculous to believe that Greece might be taking in one million migrants, registering them, then giving refuge to those who have a right to asylum and sending everyone back that does not. Greece is not doing that. We can blame the Greeks for that, but at the same time we should change the Dublin Regulation. When we insist on this unrealistic procedure, it means nothing more than that we are defending Dublin while renouncing Schengen.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Believe, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and shame, about victims and perpetrators, about reasons, arguments and beliefs that led to the conflict in the first place, etc. All of this needed and still needs answering and ongoing discussions, but I mostly felt overwhelmed and unqualified to articulate anything worth more than personal experiences of the siege, of fear and refuge - all the things which I wrote about anyway.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Book, Political, Guilt

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I guess none of the sides of my hyphen are particularly subtle cultures. But perhaps there is also a sense that these characters are all parentless - every character in this book is feral in some way - without any guidance in their upbringing. They find no choice but to seek refuge in extreme behaviors.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Book, Character, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge in hip-hop. I'm hoping that young people immersed in the culture will work harder to capitalize on the possibilities for great social change that hip-hop represents as a national unified cultural youth movement.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Hard Work, People, Hip Hop

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• Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Memories, Boredom, Sanctuary

  "Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard". Tagline, www.imdb.com. September 18, 2006.

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• I am passionate about making sure that we collectively and proactively preserve all of the world's most iconic coastal and oceanic wild places - those keystone ecosystems that are irreplaceable, breathtakingly beautiful refuges for fish and other marine wildlife.

  Serge Dedina

  Beautiful, Marine, Ecosystems

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• Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.

  Comtesse Diane

  Thinking, Prejudice

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• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Business, Entrepreneur, Lasts

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• Our aim - our only aim - is to be at home in Christ. He's not a roadside park or hotel room. He's our permanent mailing address. Christ is our home. He's our place of refuge and security. We're comfortable in his presence, free to be our authentic selves. We know our way around in him. We know his heart and his ways. We rest in him, find our nourishment in him. His roof of grace protects us from storms of guilt. His walls of providence secure us from destructive winds. His fireplace warms us during the lonely winters of life. We linger in the abode of Christ and never leave.

  Max Lucado

  Lonely, Wall, Home

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it's the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.

  Ada Limon

  Art, Reason

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Art devoid of danger lacks many other things as well: pleasure, beauty, and the ability to save us. Poems that divest the self of its masks in order to analyze how those masks are made - by what means, by whom, for what ostensible purpose - those poems risk offering us refuge.

  James Allen Hall

  Art, Mean, Risk

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or another. So I think there's a lot of kids who relate to my story. They also relate to the fact that I got out of it. And I tell them that my refuge from all that was books - the library was my safe place. And the art room was my safe place because there I knew what I was doing.

  David Small

  Art, Book, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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