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• Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

  Mason Cooley

  Sports, Murder Mysteries, Curiosity

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• A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Moving, Sight, Ideas

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• Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect in all of these; work, they will come. He who has given up all attachment, all fear, and all anger, he whose whole soul has gone unto the Lord, he who has taken refuge in the Lord, whose heart has become purified, with whatsoever desire he comes to the Lord, He will grant that to him. Therefore worship Him through knowledge, love, or renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Taken, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.59, Advaita Ashrama

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• What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?

  Barbara Boxer

  Thinking, Oil, Environmental

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• So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

  E. Howard Hunt

  War, Heart, Europe

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• Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.

  Wright Morris

  Writing, Islands, Soul

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• An important measure of our true commitment to environmental quality is our dedication to protecting the wilderness and its inhabitants. We must recognize their ecological significance and preserve them as sources of inspiration and education. And we need them as places of quiet refuge and reflection.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Inspiration, Commitment, Reflection

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.101, Best Books on

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• The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Christian, Mean, Heart

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• When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Art, Temples, Workshops

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• Comedy is the last refuge of the non-comformist mind.

  Gilbert Seldes

  Mind, Lasts, Comedy

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• Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

  John Tillotson

  Hope, Men, Sick

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.663

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• Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, Men, Mistress

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• There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

  Agathon

  Men, Despair, Allowing

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• Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner.

  Khalil Gibran

  Jesus, Book, Compassion

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• Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Power, Purpose

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives. We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Space, Mind

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• Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.

  Ann Druyan

  Taken, Eye, Feel Better

  "Billions and Billions". Book by Carl Sagan, epilogue, p. 271, 1997.

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• Be ye a refuge to the fearful; bring ye rest and peace to the disturbed; make ye a provision for the destitute; be a treasury of riches for the poor; be a healing medicine for those who suffer pain; be ye doctor and nurse to the ailing; promote ye friendship, and honour, and conciliation, and devotion to God, in this world of non-existence.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Pain, Healing, Medicine

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• The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade
  Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,
  Where all his long anxieties forgot
  Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,
  Or recollected only to gild o'er
  And add a smile to what was sweet before,
  He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,
  Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,
  Improve the remnant of his wasted span.
  And having lived a trifler, die a man.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Retirement, Thinking

  William Cowper (1847). “Poems, with a memoir of the author”, p.146

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• The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Religious, Answers, Honest

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

  David Mamet

  Jingoism, Avant Garde, Nonsense

  David Mamet (2013). “Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama”, p.61, Vintage

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• The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your expertise. Offer instead to teach him about the Tao. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao? Because, being one with the Tao, when you seek, you find; and when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. That is why everybody loves it.

  Laozi

  Mistake, Men, Leader

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• Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high and heavenly things, take refuge in the Passion of Christ, and love to dwell within His Sacred Wounds. For if you devoutly seek the Wounds of Jesus and the precious marks of His Passion, you will find great strength in all troubles.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Prayer, Passion

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• But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity. Fear is, in short, the devil. It causes most of the sin, disaster, disease and misery of the world. It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may...devour. The only refuge is in the knowledge that it has no power other than the power you give it.

  Robert Collier

  Giving, Humanity, Devil

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• The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.

  Jane Jacobs

  Animal, Cities, Car

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