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• For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, School, Soul

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• The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

  Mason Cooley

  Knives, May, Plastic

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• Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1003, Delphi Classics

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• I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  New York, Real, Fighting

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• Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy.

  Florence King

  Women, White, Hot Flashes

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• The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

  Eric Burns

  War, Heart, Destiny

  Eric Burns (1995). “The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader”

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• To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author.

  Paul Goodman

  Thinking, Style, Nuance

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• I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

  Kate Atkinson

  Believe, Mean, Buddhism

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• We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

  Bernie Sanders

  Rights, Women's Rights

  "United Against the War on Women". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• The regime must allow immediate and unrestricted access to every site, every document, and every person identified by inspectors. Iraq can be certain that the old game of cheat-and-retreat tolerated at other times will no longer be tolerated.

  George W. Bush

  Games, Iraq, Cheat

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• As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to new financial heights despite frequent retreats from serious play. And, like Capablanca, Fischer is recognized by millions of non-players and has won the game many new enthusiasts.

  Andrew Soltis

  Player, Games, Chess

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• And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Jobs, Challenges

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.

  Bill Gates

  Winning, Thinking, Years

  "In Search Of The Real Bill Gates" by Walter Isaacson, www.cnn.com. 1996.

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• Some of the colonizers do understand and quickly retreat, while some, because they are stupid, continue colonizing others, increasing the suffering, deaths, injuries, defeat and humiliation. The people colonized by Abyssinia will be free. Eritrea will be free, and they cannot refuse to let them be free. Western Somalia will be free, and they cannot refuse to grant it freedom. The numerous Abo will be free because this is history, and no one can prevent the sunshine from reaching us.

  Siad Barre

  Stupid, Sunshine, People

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• One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  War, Passion, Helping

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• Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

  David Whyte

  Art, Impossible, Overhearing

  David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.289, Crown Business

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• Some who call themselves realists question whether the spread of democracy in the Middle East should be any concern of ours. But the realists in this case have lost contact with a fundamental reality: America has always been less secure when freedom is in retreat; America is always more secure when freedom is on the march.

  George W. Bush

  Reality, America, Democracy

  Remarks by the President at the United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 2, 2004.

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• One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.

  Sun Tzu

  Preparation, Speak, Increase

  Tzu Sun (1994). “The Art of War”, p.158, Basic Books

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• Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Past, Ultimate

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• It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.

  Edgar Snow

  Strong, Army, Men

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• If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

  Sven Birkerts

  Mass Culture, Literature, Refuse

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.213, Macmillan

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• Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

  Padgett Powell

  Nice, Book, Writing

  Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take time to retreat to that quiet place within the pit of your soul and unleash your right to decide what is best for you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Giving, Challenges, Soul

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 03, 2015

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• But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat,
  The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,
  To closer shades the panting flocks remove;
  Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Shade, Murmuring

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.7

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• Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

  Christopher Lasch

  Safety, Rejection, Subordination

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

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