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• Oh, here's your tax dollars at work. This is what makes people furious. The head of the GSA, a woman named Martha Johnson, has resigned after they found out she spent over $830,000 on a four-day government conference in Las Vegas. And the president is furious. Not President Obama, the president of China. It's his money. It's his money she spent.

  Jay Leno

  Vegas, Government, People

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• A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

  Ann Plato

  Situations In Life, May, Spheres

  Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

  Denis Hayes

  Important, Tools, Stones

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• I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Fate, Thinking, World

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

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• I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.

  Father Damien

  Giving Up, Sorry, Islands

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• 22 of 52 top (FDA) officials have worked for regulated industries, or organizations that cater to those industries...During a hearing held in 1969 by the House Inter-governmental Relations Subcommittee, it was disclosed that of 49 high ranking FDA officials who had recently resigned or retired, 37 joined or served as consultants to regulated industries.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Dark, Fda, Organization

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• For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Lying, Years

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

  Ezra Pound

  Letting Go, Country, Children

  "Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry".

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• Mild is the slow necessity of death;
  The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp,
  Without a groan, almost without a fear,
  Resigned in peace to the necessity;
  Calm as a voyager to some distant land,
  And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Land, Spirit

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.67, Modern Library

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• A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Brother, Endurance, Doctrine

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Acceptance, Goal, Joy

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.80, ICS Publications

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• They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

  Josephus

  Pain, Healing, Past

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• We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

  Graham Greene

  Death, Near Death

  Graham Greene (1951). “The heart of the matter”

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• Purge me from every sinful blot;
  My idols all be cast aside:
  Cleanse me from every evil thought,
  From all the filth of self and pride.
  
  The hatred of the carnal mind
  Out of my flesh at once remove:
  Give me a tender heart, resigned,
  And pure, and full of faith and love.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Pride, Idols

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.21

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• I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be. I have no idea. That's my existentialism. I am a student of uncertainty, I have no idea where the stock market is going to be. So when I am creating trades in my portfolio for my clients, I am agnostic. I just want to enhance the probability that I make money come what may.

  Hugh Hendry

  Ideas, Creating, Gold

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• London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

  Dorothy Parker

  New York, Paris, Hopeful

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• Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"

  Edmund Fuller

  Dog, New York, Expression

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• I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Long, President

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• As you run out of options and energy you must become resigned to your plight. Like it or not you must make a new mental map of where you are, not where you wish you were. To survive you must find yourself, then it won't matter where you are.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Running, Finding Yourself, Wish

  "Deep Survival". Book by Laurence Gonzales, 2003.

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• Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.

  Robert Kennedy

  Passion, Men, Justice

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Office, Wish, Done

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.

  C.P. Snow

  Men, Thinking, People

  C. P. Snow (2013). “Science and Government”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.

  John Dieterich

  Doe, Way, Facts

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Party, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Chaka Fattah already lost the seat in a Democratic primary. So, he's on his way out. And he formally resigned this week.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Way, Week, Lost

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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