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• Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Commerce, Shore

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Entertainers, Performers, Fiddlers

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• Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.

  Richard Mant

  Son, Men, Charity

  Richard Mant (1828). “Biographical Notices of the Apostles, Evangelists and Other Saints: With Reflexions and Collects : Adapted to the Minor Festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland”, p.396

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• So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.

  John Updike

  Thinking, Careers, Worry

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.212, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.

  Patrick Madrid

  Jesus, Joy, Sorrow

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• The only option to avoid war is the departure of the number one warmonger in the world US President George W Bush. His policy has brought disaster to the United States. This crazy man should go and also his subject, disciple and follower UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

  Naji Sabri

  Crazy, War, Men

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• Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.

  John Calvin

  Party, Differences, World

  Letter to Philip Melanchthon, November 28, 1552.

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• Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.

  George Carlin

  Book, Writing, Eight

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• In the railroads, some people read clearly printed departure signs and then proceed to ask several times what they say. On airplanes, they demand things they know they cannot have. In their cars, they load up, drive away and then suddenly realize they don't know where they're going.

  Lucinda Franks

  Airplane, Car, People

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• Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

  George Carlin

  Book, Writing, Stage

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• What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Thinking, Doe

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• We lost not only through death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety -- and the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal.

  Judith Viorst

  Letting Go, Dream, Moving

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• This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Facts, Formal, Idle

  William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”

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• Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Artist, Inability, Exactness

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• After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Iran, People, President

  Le Monde Interview in Paris, January 9, 1979.

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• The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tears, Noise, Youth

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off.

  David Blunkett

  Party, Prime, Ministers

  "Blair faces crisis over resignations" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2006.

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• The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

  Arthur Koestler

  Society, Adults, Groups

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

  Alan Bennett

  Prayer, Mean, Trying

  Alan Bennett (2007). “Writing Home”, p.185, Macmillan

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• I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Character, Play, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a little bit of me in all of the characters I've played. I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Character, Opportunity, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

  William Rees-Mogg

  Spiritual, Leader, Arguing

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• A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

  Samuel Richardson

  Truth, Known

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• As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Taken, Long, Minorities

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Reality, Looks

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