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• I have been a comic book fan nearly all my life. My fascination began as a refuge after my father left because it was within the stories told in comics that I could find heroes who fought for justice and where outcasts or misfits could find purpose and commonality. But over time I have come to love comics as a medium for its ability to tell stories with tremendous depth and emotion that in some ways go beyond what is possible solely with the written word.

  Andrew Aydin

  Father, Book, Hero

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Before the United States, there wasn't really anyplace anybody could go. They had to seek refuge in other ways. After the United States was founded, it became the place you go, and the people who came assimilated into a single culture that was shared in a way. Everything the left claims to want is exactly what this country started out doing. It was multicultural, we had the Italians, we had the Irish, we had everybody.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, People, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Music, Soul, Music Is

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• The idea that Hillary Clinton's plan wants to increase Syrian refuges by 550 percent is very concerning to many Americans. They know what has happened. They know there's home-grown terrorism here.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Home, Ideas, Want

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Reform, Drs, Lasts

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• Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.

  Neil Postman

  Giving, Voting, Lasts

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.66, Penguin

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• PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.

  Chaz Bufe

  Country, Government, Feelings

  Chaz Bufe (2014). “Provocations: Don't Call Them Libertarians, AA Lies, and Other Incitements”, p.168, See Sharp Press

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• Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

  G. Bruce Boyer

  Insecure, Style, Dresses

  G. Bruce Boyer (2015). “True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hard Work, Hard

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• Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, Lasts, Great Idea

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.101, Penguin

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• You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, People, Comfort

  Max Lucado (2006). “Facing Your Giants: A David and Goliath Story for Everyday People”, p.40, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Book, Reading, Long

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.157, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Needs, Entering, Merit

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• I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sanctuary, Lasts, Violence

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• Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Glasses, Long

  Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). “Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?

  Umberto Eco

  Couple, Encounters, Damnation

  "Foucault's Pendulum". Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.

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• I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

  Oscar Wilde

  Success, Simple, Simplicity

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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• A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Cities, Feet

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

  William Plomer

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Lasts

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• Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it'sunimaginable what can be done in war with the help of lies. He's an utterly amoral repulsive creature. I'm convinced that he has his place of refuge ready beyond the Atlantic. He obviously won't seek sanctuary in Canada. In Canada he'd be beaten up. He'll go to his friends the Yankees. As soon as this damnable winter is over, we'll remedy all that.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Lying, Winter

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• Man's feeble race what ills await!
  Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
  Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train,
  And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Pain, Fate

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.28

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• Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hard Work, People, Opinion

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.50, Penguin

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• Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

  Georges Duhamel

  Taken, Courtesy, British

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• The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Ivory Tower, Towers, Poet

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• Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

  Tony Wilson

  Listening, Musician, Doe

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