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• No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

  Plato

  Love, Doe

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.54

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• As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak—a whispering that enables us into its world . . . a masterfully sutured journey, painfully useful. Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines is a book I know I will return to. And urge it on my friends who have lives too and write in them.

  Eileen Myles

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

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• If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

  Karen Traviss

  Fire, Enemy, Shots

  Karen Traviss (2008). “Sacrifice: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.135, Del Rey

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• It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

  Parmenides

  Indifferent

  Frag. B 5, quoted by Proclus, "Commentary on the Parmenides", 708,

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• My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One.

  Zeno of Elea

  Writing, Views, Details

  "A History of Philosophy". Book by Frederick Charles Copleston, Volume 1: "Greece and Rome From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus", 1953.

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• The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.

  Chanakya

  Rain, Ocean, Animal

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• The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim,
  And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em.
  They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'

  Nas

  Rap, Holiday, Hip Hop

  Song: What Goes Around, Album: Stillmatic, 2001

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• I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

  Martha Stewart

  Good Life, Mistake, Good Work

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• Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?

  Ira Reiss

  Strong, Children, Biblical

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• Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact of 1929. Under the terms of this deal, Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy, with monopoly powers over matters such as birth, marriage, death, and education, and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini's party. Pope Pius XI described II Duce (“the leader”) as “a man sent by providence.”

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Men, Europe

  "God Is Not Great".

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• When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace, ... There is no alternative to it.

  Shimon Peres

  Reality, Order, Together

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• Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the psyche, human nature, and the nature of reality.

  Stanislav Grof

  Reality, Discovery, Understanding

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• The Fed is on hold at least through the election but I think we'll get a little more tightening at the start of next year. I think, for the time being, we have a soft landing. But I think the reality is the stock market rally will probably add a little fuel to the economy and the tightening will return next year.

  William C. Dudley

  Reality, Thinking, Years

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• Going around this country, I have found a great hunger in America for spiritual revival; for a belief that law must be based on a higher law; for a return to traditions and values that we once had. Our government, in its most sacred documents - the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and all - speak of man being created, of a Creator; that we're a nation under God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Country, Men

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• If you sing alone in your shrine, the vibrations return to you as a reaction. But in community singing, what you have is not a reaction but a wave of vibrations. They enter into the atmosphere and purify the polluted air.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Air, Bhajans, Community

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• More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.

  Sandra Worth

  Regret, Tears, Stories

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• For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

  Confucius

  Life, Revenge, Justice

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• See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

  Ezra Pound

  Fear, Wind, Feet

  Ezra Pound (1957). “Selected Poems”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

  Eric Alterman

  Hysteria, Mad, Political

  "Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.

  Richard J. Daley

  Doors, Political, Stories

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• All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

  H. L. Mencken

  Zoos, Freedom, Political

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.365, Vintage

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• That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn't have to return to airports.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Fun, Airports, Flying

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• The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

  Seneca the Younger

  Relaxation, Mind, May

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• Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

  Ben Bernanke

  Retirement, Jobs, Goal

  "If You're A Saver, Ben Bernanke Has A Special Message For You" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. September 14, 2012.

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• But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Wisdom, Men, Unity

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