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• Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

  Marvin Olasky

  Baseball, Spring, Needs

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• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

  Joan Halifax

  Our World, Symphony, Silence

  Joan Halifax (2007). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

  Douglas Adams

  Sister, Time, Brother

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.706, Pan Macmillan

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• You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  People, Villain, Clear

  Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Home, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dream, Venice, Lovely

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• The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

  David Trimble

  Mistake, Giving, Decision

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• I will leave the U.S Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Law, Practice, January

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• I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

  Amy Winehouse

  Memories, Husband, Next Day

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• You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Giving, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.46, Routledge

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• Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.

  Carl Rogers

  Ideas, Becoming, Authority

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Dust, Tree

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.273, Vintage

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• Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

  John Stuart Mill

  Benefits, Protection

  On Liberty ch. 4 (1859)

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• It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

  Jacques Derrida

  Desire, Archives, Nostalgia

  Jacques Derrida (1998). “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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• Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Taken, Wind, Faster

  "The Story of a Mother". Story by Hans Christian Andersen, 1847.

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• I am going to hold serve the majority of the time. It is nice to have a little time to return serve.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Nice, Majority

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.

  George McGovern

  Taken, Government, Order

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• I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Thinking, Evil, Behavior

  "Rafsanjani Urges U.S. to Begin Thaw in Ties". The New York Times Interview, May 19, 2005.

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• No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Thinking, Land, Names

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, 4th Of July, Sleep

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• I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

  Mitt Romney

  Trying, Flopping, Flip Flops

  "Romney: 'I learn from experience'". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com.

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• I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.

  Mike Huckabee

  College, Records, Students

  "Huckabee Wants To Know If Obama Got College Loans 'As A Foreign Student'". "The O'Reilly Factor", Fox News, www.mediamatters.org. January 20, 2012.

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• Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?

  Robert Silverberg

  Unique, Feelings, World

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• After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Jerusalem, Possession, Burned

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• It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of course; simultaneity is identity. But to our perceptions, that simultaneity will function as a transmission, a sending. So we will be able to use it to talk between worlds, without the long waiting for the message to go and the reply to return that electromagnetic impulses require. It is really a very simple matter. Like a kind of telephone.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Communication, Winning, Simple

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