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• It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

  Wynonna Judd

  Children, Sound, Corny

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• Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

  Lauryn Hill

  Responsibility, Fans, Individual

  "Singer Lauryn Hill sentenced to 3 months in jail for not tax evasion". www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2013.

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• It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

  Margaret Fuller

  Self, Armor, Slave

  Margaret Fuller (1844). “Summer on the Lakes”, p.73, Ardent Media

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• There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Peace, Fear, Spring

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• Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Party, Thinking, Hymns

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• I wouldn't abandon nobody. I would be lying if I said I was just talking to everybody.

  Puff Daddy

  Lying, Talking, Would Be

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• Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Fear, Views, Novelty

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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• This is not a place, after all. It is BETWEEN places. This is NOWHERE. A brief thought: I could stay here, abandon my quest, hang forever in the void, safe and cold and alone.

  Neil Gaiman

  Forever, Quests, Safe

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• We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Inspirational, Educational, Men

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• I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Car, People

  Interview with Anne Pasternak, creativetime.org.

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• I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

  George W. Bush

  Order, Principles, Free Market

  "CNBC transcript: CNBC's Larry Kudlow sits down with former President George W. Bush tonight on CNBC's 'The Kudlow Report'". "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

  Robert E. Lee

  4th Of July, Son, Animosity

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• More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

  Gary Bauer

  Party, Issues, Political

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• We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, Doctrine, Littles

  The Guardian, November 20, 1991.

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• That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Character, Years, Perspective

  "Leadership Begins With Character" by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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• They actually think I would abandon the Commander. they have no concept of loyalty.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Loyalty, Thinking, Commanders

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.245, Harlequin

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• It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.
  People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Ignorance, People

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• In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden and they abandon their values.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Past, Garden

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

  Nhat Hanh

  Daily Life, Moments, Ifs

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• As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

  Bertrand Russell

  Trouble, Reason, Authority

  "The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell".

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• I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

  Leonard Cohen

  Real, Winning, Easier

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• For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

  Robert Frost

  Truth, Belief, Being True

  Robert Frost (1914). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all the alcohol he imbibed, so he wouldn't look or act much different.

  Shannon Hale

  Alcohol, Different, Looks

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• Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Years, Preparation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements.

  Michel de Certeau

  Wall, Moving, Journey

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.98, Univ of California Press

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