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• My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

  Woody Allen

  "Woody Allen's woes over ageing and death" by Fiona Pryor, news.bbc.co.uk. May 15, 2010.

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• It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the
  world by offering a bonus or a yearly pension to all obviously unfit parents who allow
  themselves to be sterilized by harmless and scientific means.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mean, Government, Offering

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• But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.

  John Dewey

  Butterfly, Unique, Earthquakes

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, R. W. Sleeper (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1939-1941”, p.112, SIU Press

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• A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Understood, Mere

  Carl Gustav Jung (1966). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky

  Carl Jung

  Sky, Ego, Earth

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “Answer to Job”

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• A classic is a book that remains in print

  Mark Van Doren

  Book, Classic, Print

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• In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Hatred, Political

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.

  Dan Quayle

  Party, Tents, Messages

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• I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reality, California, Southern

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

  Walt Whitman

  School, Humanity, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1406, Delphi Classics

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• It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.

  Michael Moorcock

  Years, Editors, Attention

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• Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

  Max Euwe

  Sports, Games, Achievement

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• When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Broken, Promise, Way

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Long, Slave

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1979.

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• All entities move and nothing remains still.

  Heraclitus

  Moving, Entity, Stills

  "Cratylus". Dialogue by Plato, 1826.

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• Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

  Heraclitus

  Rivers, Water, Flow

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• Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there

  Clive James

  Dirty, Cities, Names

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.

  Jefferson Davis

  Government, League, Abuse

  Jefferson Davis (1971). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stories, Ships, My Favorite

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• Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Pain, Waiting, Ends

  Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

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• The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.

  Johannes Kepler

  Baby, Stars, Astrology

  "Harmonices Mundi". Book by Johannes Kepler, 1618.

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• What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.

  Dan B. Allender

  Stars, Servant Leadership, North Star

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• Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

  Theodor Reik

  Children, Romance, Parent

  Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.166, Transaction Publishers

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• And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Clouds, Light

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.218

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• Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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