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• In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth the brain and heateth and helpeth digestion' is made muddy and ill-flavoured! ... You may roast the berries 'to the queen's taste,' and grind them fresh every morning, and yet, if the golden liquid be not prepared in the most immaculate of coffee-pots, with each return of morning, a new disappointment awaits you.

  Janet McKenzie Hill

  Morning, Queens, Disappointment

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• For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Prayer, Patriotic, Pride

  Telephone Talk With Apollo 11 Astronauts on the Moon, delivered 20 July 1969, Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people tried and how many people lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came back? But, still, people come from all over the world, risking, knowing they may never return. For them it is worth it - because in the very risk something is born inside of them: the center. It is born only in the risk. That's the beauty of risk, the gift of risk.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Thinking, Years

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• A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Clever, War

  James Clavell, Sun Tzu (2013). “The Art of War”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible, disaster will ensue.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Enemy

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.54, Xist Publishing

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• How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

  Winston Churchill

  Educational, Home, School

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• Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Memories, Games, Play

  Ariel Dorfman (2012). “Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile”, p.9, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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• There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for a soldier who returns after fleeing, and who valiantly pursues the enemy, than for one who never turned back, but who never acted valiantly either. A farmer has greater love for land which bears fruitfully, after he has cleared it of thorns, than for land which never had thorns but which never yielded a fruitful harvest.

  Pope Gregory I

  Land, Joy, Leader

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• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Blow

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Funny, New Year, Years

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• The words can not return.

  Horace

  Latin, Can Not

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• What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Revenge, Blow

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• In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

  Prince Philip

  Death, Suicide, Nwo

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• Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Ambition, Science

  Charles Babbage (1851). “The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England”, p.189

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• In those days contests were extremely rough and frequently cost the participants their lives. Thus, whenever I sallied forth to take part in any of those affairs, I invariably bade farewell to my parents, since I had no assurance that I should ever return alive.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Farewell, Parent, Alive

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• Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

  Satish Kumar

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one is a weakling forever. Meeting a challenge, though one may be defeated, gives strength, character, and a certain assurance that regardless of outcome, one will survive or go down fighting.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Life, Running, Character

  "Reflections from the North Country".

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• I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.

  John Clare

  Love, Sweet, Heart

  John Clare (2015). “Poems Chiefly from Manuscript”, p.268, The Floating Press

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• Thus with the year
  Seasons return, but not to me returns
  Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
  Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
  Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Gratitude, Home, Sacrifice

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• Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.

  John Wooden

  Helping Others, Perfect Days, Joy

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.10, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.

  Stevie Wonder

  Integrity, Careers, Volunteer

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• Be grateful for the love you have to share-share it, and it will return to you ten times over.

  James Van Praagh

  Love You, Grateful, Share

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Nov 26, 2015

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• Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".

  Dalai Lama

  Jealousy, Buddhist, Kindness

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• Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

  Agnes Repplier

  Pain, Regret, Years

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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