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• Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

  Robert Reich

  Creating, Want, Lasts

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2015

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• There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Successful, Men, Ideas

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1988). “Economics in Perspective: A Critical History”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Humor, Thinking, Events

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.17, Bantam

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• I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

  Ben Nelson

  Energy, Pills, Poison

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• I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

  Kathleen Norris

  Curiosity, Conspiracy, Natural

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Military, Army

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• When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

  Aaron Zigman

  Hurt, Piano, Tennis

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• I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family being diagnosed with breast cancer, mastectomies led to one-breasted women. I believe it is the result of nuclear fallout.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Cancer, Believe, Writing

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Cancer, Rivers

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play; I'm not into entertainment.

  Henry Rollins

  Art, Fun, Writing

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• Writing has always been a sanctuary or a refuge for me, any time I'm stressed or anxious or worried I find that a couple of hours expressing myself by writing always seems to have a calming effect on me.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Couple, Writing, Calming Effect

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she-your holy mother Mary-offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her arms, the tenderness of her embrace ... and you will find yourself with added strength for the new battle.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Mother, Son

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• I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.

  Susan Stroman

  Art, Real, Museums

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  America, Space, Documentaries

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• We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

  Mason Cooley

  Illness, Trapped

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• Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as they applaud, and being there first is usually lonely. But our protection cannot come between us and our purpose. Right protection is something within us rather than something between us and the world, more about finding a place of refuge and strength than finding a hiding place.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Spiritual, Lonely, Disappointment

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• Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

  Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  "A gag full of holes". www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2007.

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• In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Age, Machines

  "Rotunda" by Royal Ontario Museum, Volumes 34-36 (p. 12), 2001.

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• One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

  Mark Twain

  Home, House, May

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• For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

  Edward Coke

  Home, Men, House

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• I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lasts, Found, Scoundrels

  "The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 11: Collected Plays and Chesterton on Shaw". Book edited by Denis J. Conlon, 1989.

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• I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.

  Freeman Dyson

  Revenge, Science, Boys

  "Brilliant Light" by Oliver Sacks, www.newyorker.com. December 20, 1999.

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• The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Fighting, Errors, Numbers

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• Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Home, Self

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.258, Macmillan

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• Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, War, Emotional

  "You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living".

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