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  The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Civil Rights, Presses, Falsehood

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. X (in 12 Volumes): Correspondence and Papers 1803-1807”, p.368, Cosimo, Inc.

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• This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create attachments. Reflect people, reflect the beauties of the world - and there are so many. But don't cling. The clinging mind loses its mirrorhood. And mirrorhood is Buddhahood. To keep that quality of mirroring continuously fresh is to remain young, is to remain pure, is to remain innocent. Know, but don't create knowledge. Love, but don't create desire. Live, live beautifully, live utterly, abandon yourself in the moment. But don't look back. This is the art of non-attachment.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Attachment, World Love

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to harm & to suffering' - then you should abandon them.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Teacher, Buddhist

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• Never abandon your dreams. You may regret it for the rest of your life.

  Fabiola Gianotti

  Inspirational, Dream, Regret

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• Gaining people's trust might be harder than gaining all creation. But, what is harder than gaining people's trust is having to abandon them.

  Queen Seondeok of Silla

  Drama, People, Might

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• While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it was in the days when I first discovered it. I am convinced that long after I have stopped riding as a professional I will be riding my bicycle. I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.

  Stephen Roche

  Beautiful, Strong, Cycling

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• The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.

  A.J. Ayer

  Self, Principles, Use

  "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 77), 1936.

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• The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

  Bergen Evans

  Men, Humanity, Religion

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• Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. God will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle.

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Prayer, Heart, Meditation

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• To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Struggle, Passion

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

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• Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.

  Wayland Drew

  Spiritual, Thinking, Rivers

  Wayland Drew (1988). “Willow: a novel”, Del Rey

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• A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do thingsagainst himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course.

  Saint Boniface

  Inspirational, Stress, Responsibility

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• Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.

  Paul of the Cross

  Humble, Men, Secret

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• An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'

  Tina Fey

  Teacher, Motivation, Moving

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• I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation,
  So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;
  He informed me that knowledge is a light,
  And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Light

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• Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Death, Men

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.

  Anton Chekhov

  Passion, Writing, Play

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• I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

  Gustav Mahler

  Ideas, My Own, Carried Away

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• God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

  J. I. Packer

  Jobs, Sheep, Track

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.95, InterVarsity Press

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• Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Writing, Character, Paper

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• We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Philosophy, Tradition, Conviction

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1989). “Mikhail Gorbachev Addresses the United Nations”

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• The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.

  Timothy Hallinan

  Zero, Book, Long

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• Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes!

  Iwane Matsui

  Fighting, Japan, Ashes

  "Nips to Keep Philippines Even if Tokyo Falls". Los Angeles Times, February 4, 1945.

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• America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

  Dennis Prager

  Civilization, America, Political

  "The More Given, the Less Earned". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2009.

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