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• Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Imperfection, Power Politics

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.498, Best Books on

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• Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Power, Looks, Blast

  Charles R. Swindoll (1992). “Second Wind: Fresh Hope for the Road Ahead”, Zondervan

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• In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

  Martin Luther

  Revolution, Planning, Rebellious

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• We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!

  Patrick Stewart

  Fall, Space, Done

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• I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.

  Lydia Lunch

  Reflection, Glasses, Mirrors

  Lydia Lunch (1997). “Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary”, Creation Publishing Group

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• I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Live Life, Lessons, Serious

  Sam Lipsyte (2005). “Home Land: A Novel”, p.54, Macmillan

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• Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

  Janice Rogers Brown

  Family, War, Moving

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• The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding the problems created by a private sector already in retreat. The result, of course, was an economic rout, appalling unemployment and a decade of negligible growth through the 1930s

  Kevin Rudd

  Cutting, Government, Growth

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• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. But it is forbidden that this harm the continued struggle against the Zionist enemy. Cooperation and understanding between the P.L.O. and the rejectionist organizations is what will lead to the speedy retreat of Israel from the occupied territories in the first stage, until the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. Only a state like that can then continue the struggle to remove the enemy from all Palestinian lands.

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Israel, Order

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• All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national economies, universities have been coming under pressure to turn themselves into training schools equipping young people with the skills required by a modern economy.

  J. M. Coetzee

  School, Government, Skills

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• Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

  Andre Maurois

  Inspirational, Enemy, Moments

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• Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.

  Edward Abbey

  Balls, Sides, Fence

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• Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging way. That’s why I turned to Russ when I needed someone to present on the subject to the annual staff retreat of the Drug Policy Alliance. And it’s why I repeatedly recommend him for speaking and media opportunities. He’s good!

  Ethan Nadelmann

  Marijuana, Opportunity, Media

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• A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Victory

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• Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death

  Stella Adler

  Hurt, Pain, Blood

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.24, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.

  Francesco Clemente

  Real, Speech, Littles

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• Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Lines, Littles, Impossible

  Quoted in Listener, 14 Dec. 1939 See Calonne 1; Santayana 14; Trollope 3

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• No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.

  William Whiting Borden

  Regret, Missionary, Motto

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• Dont retreat. Retweet!

  Ai Weiwei

  Retweet

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• Sometimes, after you have taken part in a seven, one or two-day retreat, you could feel that your level of practice had risen. That was because we had given our undivided attention to breaking through our level of practice. We knew that was the sole purpose of coming to a retreat here, so our levels were uplifted and our karma left behind.

  Ching Hai

  Karma, Spiritual, Taken

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• Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.

  E. Merrill Root

  Life, Stars, Home

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• Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Kings, Democracy, Feudal System

  "Democracy in America".

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• Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it.

  Beryl Markham

  Weed, Essence, Roots

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Energy, Vacuums

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• I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it had been before; how there was that germ of positive creativeness. Character is fate; and damn, I'd better work on my character. I had been withdrawing into a retreat of numbness: it is so much safer to NOT feel, NOT to let the world touch one.

  Sylvia Plath

  Character, Fate, Numbness

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.64, Anchor

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