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• He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

  Baruch Spinoza

  God Love, Should, Endeavor

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.151, Hackett Publishing

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• I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

  Giordano Bruno

  Atheism, Praying, Trouble

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proud—crime, doesn't it rumble in the distant thunder, and don't you see how the sky grows ominously silent and gloomy?

  Max Stirner

  Sky, May, Proud

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• Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Lasts, Disaster

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• We know that Elijah did return—at least twice—after Malachi's promise. At Christ's transfiguration, Elijah appeared on the mount to Peter, James, and John. At the Kirtland Temple, April 3, 1836, Elijah appeared to the Prophet and Oliver Cowdery and said, 'The keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands.'

  Russell M. Nelson

  Keys, Hands, Promise

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• A prominent judge was asked what we, as citizens of the countries of the world, could do to reduce crime and disobedience to law and to bring peace and contentment into our lives and into our nations. He thoughtfully replied, ‘I would suggest a return to the old-fashioned practice of family prayer.’

  Thomas S. Monson

  Country, Prayer, Countries Of The World

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Order, Challenges

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• Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Joy, Missionary, Eternity

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2016

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• Of course I miss playing for Manchester United. I played there for six years and that’s a long time. I am still interested in watching Manchester United and, you never know, maybe in the future I could return to play there. It’s always possible. I want to fulfil my contract here but, in the future, only God knows. I will not say I am not happy here at Real Madrid. I am really happy and everyone knows this is my club but, of course, I miss Manchester United, the boss, the players, because I left family there.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Real, Player, Years

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• Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible, and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistance which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States?

  Gilles Deleuze

  War, Thinking, Organization

  Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (1987). “Dialogues”, Burns & Oates

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• I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.

  Minnie Bruce Pratt

  Falling In Love, Writing, Self

  "Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write" By Minnie Bruce Pratt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Since my return to America my Master, has at the desire of my friends in England given me my freedom.

  Phillis Wheatley

  America, Desire, England

  Phillis Wheatley (2001). “Complete Writings”, p.147, Penguin

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• Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Narrative, Way

  "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?". Book by Jeanette Winterson (Page 58), www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.  As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.  That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.  When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.  We call this the moment of death.  That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

  Bill Viola

  Ocean, Moving, Water

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• Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Mean, Light, Self

  Dennis Kucinich's Address to the Praxis Peace Institute Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 9, 2002.

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• The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.

  Umberto Eco

  Moving, Arrogance, Doubt

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.511, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Loss, Competition, Matter

  Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.173, eNet Press

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• We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.

  James Hansen

  Decide Upon, Years, Humanity

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• What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.

  Walt Whitman

  Sky, Simplicity, Forever

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Funny, Humor, Musical

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• Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous poets to the part-time English teachers), and its expansive indigenous landscape, as well as he does. Mason's poetry is humorous when he wants to be quirky, heartbreaking when he wants to be eloquent, and though he moves effortlessly into other moods and geographies, he always returns to his first and most enduring love (and to what he knows best)-his homeland.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Teacher, Humorous, Moving

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• As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Pay, Information, Lectures

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• When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I  wasted any more time on tobacco.”“After I die I shall return to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello and I won't let a one of you in.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Believe, Earth, Firsts

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• And that was what I was asking to happen and I was told that the indictment would be signed, but I was coming to the end of my one-year contract, I had to return to New Zealand for personal reasons.

  Tony Greig

  Years, Asking, Would Be

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

  Pope Pius XII

  Church, Tongue, Abandon

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