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• To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Cold, Said

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Fabulous" Jack said, reaching down and plucking a crimson flower. A small scream sounded from it as he severed the stem. He smiled maliciously, then started stomping with abandon through the beds of blossoms, a chorus of tinny, shrill screams punctuating every step.

  Kiersten White

  Flower, Bed, Down And

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• If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Believe, Heart

  "How Republicans can become 'compassionate conservatives' again" by Gary Bauer, www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2013.

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• For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.

  Melissa Marr

  Kings, Queens, Years

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• They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.

  Christopher Paolini

  Simple, Identity, Fiber

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• To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Practice, People, Goal

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• He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

  Irving Stone

  Hours, Darkest Hour, Cried

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Believe, Embrace, Ends

  J. R. Moehringer (2005). “The Tender Bar: A Memoir”

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• There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Mean, Scary

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Choices, World

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us. It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and ask not whither?

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Sweet, Thinking, Suffering

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.75, Cosimo Classics

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• I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

  Antonin Artaud

  Dream, Law, Fever

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• On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

  Jules Verne

  Eye, Night, Light

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• Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.

  Dan Brown

  Faith, Believe, Simple

  "Angels and Demons". Book by Dan Brown, 2000.

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• The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Order, Swim

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• The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

  Jack London

  Expression, Surrender, Masters

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.176, Jack London

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• Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Mean, Gun

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

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• I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he is beyond their understanding and abandon themselves to his will. What kind of god is that?

  John Connolly

  Believe, Understanding, Suffering

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• We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

  Al Gore

  Community, Action, Conceit

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• When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

  Dave Eggers

  Mistake, Pleasure, Made

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.9, Vintage

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• Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Disappointment, Successful

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin, noticed a shade of yellow, even simply sat, with greater lust and hopefulness - and that I lusted with greater faith, hoped with greater abandon. The people I loved were celebrities, surrounded by rumor and fanfare; the places I sat with them, movie lots and monuments. No doubt all of this is not true remembrance but the ruinous work of nostalgia, which obliterates the past, and no doubt, as usual, I have exaggerated everything.

  Michael Chabon

  Summer, Stupid, Past

  "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh". Book by Michael Chabon, 1988.

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• God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

  George Sand

  Heart, Fighting, Sorrow

  George Sand (1915). “... Fanchon the Cricket: Or Fadette”

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• Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

  Grant Morrison

  Lying

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