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Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

Robert M. Gates

War, America, Leader

Robert M. Gates's Remarks at the Security and Defense Agenda, Brussels, Belgium, archive.defense.gov. June 10, 2011.

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For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign powers, while in reality the federal government appears able to dictate everything from the ingredients of school lunches to speed limits. Congress now routinely collects taxes in order to return the money to the states with conditions on their conforming to federal demands.

Jonathan Turley

Party, School, Reality

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We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,

David Ben-Gurion

Scary, Forget, Young

"The Great Catastrophe" by Karma Nabulsi, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2006.

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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

Mae West

Home, Sassy, Police

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The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise). 3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest (if you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it).'

Abu Hurairah

Lying, Character, Hypocrite

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The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Gautama Buddha

Love, Buddhist, Men

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Real kindness seeks no return.

Thiruvalluvar

Kindness, Real, Words Of Wisdom

"Tirukkural" by Thiruvalluvar, (Verse XXII.1), 1840.

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We are even more confident that when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015, women would be talking about 50 percent, no longer 35 percent. As we give him unequivocal, undiluted, unreserved and unlimited support and as we march with him to 2015, PDP women will reach the promised land.

Kema Chikwe

Good Luck, Talking, Land

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...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Moses

Book, Dust, Spirit

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...he who goes down to the grave does not return.

Moses

Book, Doe, Holy

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When I was young, I was a hunter, walking wooded hillsides with confident steps and a gun in my hand. I knew the blur of wings, the rocketing form, and the Great Moment that only hunters know, when all existence draws down to two points and a single line. And the universe holds it breath. And what may be and what will be meet and become one - before the echo returns to its source.

Pete Dunne

Gun, Hunting, Echoes

Pete Dunne (1995). “Before the Echo: Essays on Nature”

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Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

Gautama Buddha

Inspiration, Emotion, Discrimination

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You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

Islamic, Today, Dirt

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Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

Adyashanti

Silence, Meditation, Mind

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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

Adyashanti

Knowing, Meditation, Listening

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Invoke the Mercy of God and as milk returns not to the udder go not back to your wrongdoing." "Have compassion on yourself and on others and Infinite Compassion will be given to you." "In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, All Compassionate, bestow on me a Mercy that shall put me beyond the need of mercy from any other than Thee.

Muhammad

Compassion, Mercy Of God, Names

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It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns

Molly O'Neill

Morning, Uncles, Drinking

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It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.

Naomi Levy

Spiritual, Godly, Giving

Naomi Levy (2007). “Talking to God: Personal Prayers for Times of Joy, Sadness, Struggle, and Celebration”, p.13, Knopf

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Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Meaningful, Wisdom, Islamic

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For those fed up with the lack of mystery at the top of the Premiership, could I refer you to the commanding heights of the Conference. The wide points gap between first and second says we are about to witness the return to the football league of Accrington Stanley. So legendary have they become that everyone across the generations knows them, yet even those of the certain age required (you'd be pushing 60) can scarcely believe they were ever there. What proof do we have that this most Garcia Marquez of football teams was, is and yet may truly be?

Peter Chapman

Soccer, Football, Team

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The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million. The estimated dividend income received by the Thomson family in 1995 from its 72% ownership share of the Thomson Corporation and its 22% ownership share of the Hudson's Bay Company was $310 million.

Jim Stanford

Corporations, Income, Ownership

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Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars, the harmony and rhythm that issue from the world as from a lyre, the return of the seasons, the alternation of the months, the demarcation of day and night, the fruits of the earth, the vastness of the air, the ceaseless motion of the waves, the sound of the wind?

Gregory of Nazianzus

Faith, Stars, Inspiration

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How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they did not fit with a preconceived system of eschatology? Russell's Parousia takes the Bible seriously when it tells us of the nearness of Christ's return. Those who claim to interpret the Bible literally, trip over the obvious meaning of these time texts by making Scripture mean the opposite of what it unequivocally declares. Reading Russell is a breath of fresh air in a room filled with smoke and mirror hermeneutics.

Gary DeMar

Jesus, Reading, Mean

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The last 10 to 20 years you’d think that it has been all about VCs making money, because that’s all we hear about. But really it is all about VCs failing and failing to return capital and being f**king idiots. VCs are stupid. They are absolutely stupid. Does anyone want to challenge that statement? Does anyone think that VCs are not stupid?

Dave McClure

Kings, Stupid, Thinking

"Dave McClure is ripping VCs again: They’re f***ing arrogant and stupid a**holes" By John Cook, www.geekwire.com. August 22, 2012.

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The overall effect of the GEA will be to increase unit production costs, diminish competitiveness, cut the rate of return to capital in key sectors, reduce employment, and make households worse off.

Ross McKitrick

Cutting, Keys, Employment

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