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• I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.

  Susan Orlean

  Ambition, Breathing, Games

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• Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

  Susan Orlean

  Trying, Impossible, Photograph

  "Soulful" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 4, 2011.

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• When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

  Gwen Moore

  Children, Health, Funeral

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• Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

  Danica McKellar

  Change, Dream, Couple

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• Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Democracies Have, Self, Law

  "What #OccupyWallStreet Must Ask of Corporations and Themselves" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

  John Lydon

  Song, Mean, Ideas

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Rocks, Guitar, Fans

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

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• All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Order, Two

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• I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.

  Meg Cabot

  Hurt, Looks, Said

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

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• You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Scary

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

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• n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  World, Scum, Break

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• I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Past, Use

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• Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Mass Destruction, Nuclear

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• There's an old saying that you don't ever finish a movie, you abandon it, and I really believe that. I never walk away from a take and pat myself on the back.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Believe, Walks, Old Saying

  "Ryan Reynolds Shirtless For EW : Calls Sex Symbol Status 'Really Embarrassing'". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2009.

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• Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.

  Douglas Coupland

  Party, Disenfranchised

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

  Hanif Kureishi

  Distance, People, Relation

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Men, Aberration

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.282, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

  Andre Trocme

  Wisdom, Peace, Mean

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• We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it's like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• We?" I asked. Of course. I'm not leaving you alone on this, no matter what. You know I'd never abandon you.

  Richelle Mead

  Leaving, Matter, Courses

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.488, Penguin

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• A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, Play, Skills

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• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  Orson Welles

  Hobbies, Making Money, Persons

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• I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk.

  Andrew Weil

  Heart, Responsibility, Oil

  "When to Ignore Common Sense" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Meaningful, India And Pakistan, Use

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• Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.

  Marco Rubio

  Religious, Government, President

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