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• I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play. I try to embrace the silliness of it.

  Matt Letscher

  Play, Trying, Important

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Despair, Morality

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• Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Letting Go, Real, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.

  Queen Latifah

  Long, Facts, Littles

  "Queen Latifah Takes Her Last Holiday". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. January 11, 2006.

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• When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.

  Neil Strauss

  Men, Guy, Born

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• Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.

  Alfred Kreymborg

  Ambition, Thinking, Play

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• Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to.

  Alfred Capus

  Should

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• After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Goyim, Found, Jew

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• To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Mean, Self, Soul

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• The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Scary, Obeying God, Slave

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• Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind,
  Obedient passions, and a will resigned

  Samuel Johnson

  Prayer, Passion, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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• There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid,
  And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;
  The city to the soldier's rage resigned;
  Successless wars, and poverty behind;
  Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores,
  And the rash hunter strangled by the boars;
  The newborn babe by nurses overlaid;
  And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Death, War, Fighting

  John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer (1897). “Palamon and Arcite”

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• Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.

  Angela Carter

  Taken, Cat, Acceptance

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• I leave my parents here behind
  And all my friends to love resigned
  'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
  Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.

  George Moses Horton

  Farewell, Grief, Parent

  George Moses Horton (1973). “The Hope of Liberty: Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces”

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• I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry Kissinger admitted the other day, never got over President Nixon's impeachment, and didn't think, even though there was a pattern of illegal conduct there, sanctioned by the White House and proved by the tapes and other documentary evidence and testimony, they didn't believe that the impeachment was justified, and they didn't think he should have resigned.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'll dream no more--by mainly mind
  Not even in sleep is well resigned.
  My midnight orisons said o'er,
  I'll turn to rest and dream no more.

  Walter Scott

  Dream, Sleep, Mind

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• My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Father, Adventure, Twenties

  "The Coming Race" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ch. 1, 1870.

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• Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

  Jean-Francois de La Harpe

  Sacrifice, Self, Self Love

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• Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be asking a larger question: How do we change the norm, the larger context that people seem to accept as a given? Are we so thoroughly resigned to what "is" that we cannot even begin a serious conversation about how to create what ought to be?

  Michelle Alexander

  School, Thinking, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Character, Angel

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• Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made high-heeled pumps shod her beautifully arched feet. "Beautiful legs, then, is the secret of being a mistriss," concluded Francie. She looked down at her own long thin legs. "I'll never make it, I guess." Sighing , she resigned herself to a sinless life.

  Betty Smith

  Beautiful, Feet, Long

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• It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.

  Kristin Cashore

  Goodbye, Hurt, Fire

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• Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?" "Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114

  Cassandra Clare

  Track, Interesting, Jace

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• Why do you tolerate it? (Kat) The same reason Sin hasn’t resigned himself to death. There are six billion people on earth who need someone to protect them from things that are scarier than the tax man or a knife-wielding stranger. Things that a gun won’t stop. As long as their lives hang in the balance, what’s a little humiliation for me? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Gun, Men, Knives

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• I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.

  Gena Showalter

  Sound, Clubs, Might

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.139, HQN Books

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