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• What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Clothes, Trying

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.244

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• A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Funny, Law, Gentleman

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• Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Light, Assessment, Effort

  "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.

  Aberjhani

  Beauty, Heart, Night

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• What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Challenges, Finding Yourself

  Douglas Adams (1985). “The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts”, Random House Value Publishing

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• False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Darkness, Horizon

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.148

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• I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.

  will.i.am

  Jobs, Home, Pay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve the white race that he had created.... I praise God all the time for AIDS.

  J. B. Stoner

  Fighting, Race, White

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• Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and children to town in the boat for ice cream ... And I realized there was nobody in the boat to help me dock the boat, handle the ropes, do anything ... And I looked up and there was Mitt Romney. So he pulled me in, he tied up the boat for me. He rescued me just as he's going to rescue this great country.

  J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

  Summer, Country, Children

  "Bill Marriott: Mitt Romney Will Rescue America’s Yacht ... From Indeterminate Peril, Apparently" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Years, Justice

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• All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

  Franz Kafka

  Dog, Questions And Answers, Totality

  Franz Kafka “Franz Kafka Vol 2”, Lulu.com

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• Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever. And I will carry this. It is the police shield of a man named George Howard who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others. It was given to me by his mom, Arlene, as a proud memorial to her son. It is my reminder of lives that ended and a task that does not end.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, Memories, Son

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• We've gotten involved in cat rescue we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.

  Greg Ginn

  Home, Cat, Saws

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• I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

  Sam Neill

  Bottles, Boat, Champagne

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• God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Love, Pain, Choices

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.

  Lysander Spooner

  Law, Liberty, Assassins

  Lysander Spooner (1850). “A Defence for Fugitive Slaves”, p.27

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• I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Cat, Three, Humane Society

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jesus Messiah, name above all names, blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel, the rescue for sinners, the ransom from Heaven, Jesus Messiah, Lord of all.

  Chris Tomlin

  Christian, Jesus, Blessed

  Song: Jesus Messiah, Album: Hello Love, 2008

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• I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from the charge of anti-intellectualism, which rightly or wrongly has been associated with it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Preoccupation, Type, Has Beens

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.

  John Banville

  Land, Horizon, Littles

  John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.112, Pan Macmillan

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• Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

  Amy Harmon

  Voice, Redemption, Saved

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• I was working with Peter Tolan, who was my writing partner on those two [Rescue Me and The Job], and he did The Larry Sanders Show with Garry Shandling, and he always said that the second season is better because you know the actors.

  Denis Leary

  Jobs, Writing, Two

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

  Stephen Covey

  Winning, Two, Enemy

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• The church had to find a way to protect Jesus' perfection so that he could do the work of salvation which, in their frame of reference, only God could do, because God had to come into this world from outside this world to rescue the fallen creation.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Perfection, Church

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Boss, Effort, Around The World

  "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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