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• Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Home, Silence, Meditation

  Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.256, Dell

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• A short retirement urges a sweet return.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Retirement, Urges

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 249

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• Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

  Lucretius

  Violence, Injury

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1924). “De rerum natura”

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• The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Joy

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• Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Imagination, Simplicity, Firsts

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• The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

  Tim LaHaye

  Earth, Sin, Christ

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• In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, Abuse

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.74, Modern Library

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• The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Loss, Circles, Confusion

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• Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.

  A. E. Housman

  Love, Mother, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

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• Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree.
  "What are you doing?" you ask.
  "Can't you see?" comes the impatient reply. "I'm sawing down this tree."
  "You look exhausted!" you exclaim. "How long have you been at it?"
  "Over five hours," he returns, "and I'm beat! This is hard work."
  'Well, why don't you take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw?" you inquire. "I'm sure it would go a lot faster."
  "I don't have time to sharpen the saw," the man says emphatically. "I'm too busy sawing!"

  Stephen Covey

  Hard Work, Men, Long

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.363, Mango Media Inc.

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• Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Confused, Thinking

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• The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.

  Charles Lapworth

  Science, Japan, Two

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• The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short.
  Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.

  Winston Churchill

  Dark, Science, Blessing

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Views, Years

  "The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Years, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.661, Library of America

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• Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

  Anatole France

  Book, Reading, Library

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• Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost nothing on diseases that affect developing countries only. This is not surprising. Poor people cannot afford drugs, and drug companies make investments that yield the highest returns.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Yield, People

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• I cannot say, and I will not say
  That he is dead. He is just away.
  With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand,
  He has wandered into an unknown land
  And left us dreaming how very fair
  It needs must be, since he lingers there.
  And you - oh you, who the wildest yearn
  For an old-time step, and the glad return,
  Think of him faring on, as dear
  In the love of There as the love of Here.
  Think of him still as the same. I say,
  He is not dead - he is just away.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Death, Dream, Husband

  James Whitcomb Riley (1982). “The Best of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.107, Indiana University Press

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• I am a bird of God's garden
  and I do not belong to this dusty world
  For a day or two they have put me here
  in this cage of my own body
  I did not come here of my own
  I will not return of my own
  to my own country.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Country, Islamic

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• That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

  Albert Camus

  Love, Sacrifice, Giving

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• The stress that they're under is absolutely extreme. Indefinite detention. Not knowing when you're going to get out. The threat of being sent back to a country that you fear you're going to be murdered or tortured upon return. I mean, this is the most extreme form of stress you can possibly conjure up. And our country is doing this to these people.

  Patrick McGorry

  Leadership, Country, Stress

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• I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And you can voluntarily remove yourself from all those...everything that's near and dear to you. And you voluntarily return.

  Nancy Bird Walton

  Motivation, Thinking, Air

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• It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct.

  Geronimo

  Father, Home, Land

  Geronimo, S. M. Barrett (2016). “Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.

  David Foreman

  Insecure, Land, Rivers

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• Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Break Through, Ideas, Two

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