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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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• The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.

  D. A. Carson

  Lying, Heaven, Cost

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• Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Ego, Different

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• Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

  Michael Shermer

  Intelligent, Design, Understanding

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.80, Macmillan

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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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• Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Dream, Reality, Accepting

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• To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Giving, Liberty

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Thinking Of You, Ocean

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.316, 2005.

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• I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.

  Robert Owen

  Country, Religious, Real

  Robert Owen (1857). “The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself: With Selections from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.16

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• All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

  Jared Diamond

  Practice, Use, Literature

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• Lost are only those who abandon themselves.

  Hans-Ulrich Rudel

  Lost

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• The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Hours, Theory, Practicals

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• I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions

  Anita Hill

  Regret, Saying No, Suggestions

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favor, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Strong, Heart, Ideas

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• I have therefore come to the opinion that the most reasonable recourse for the humanization of society and its institutions is to abandon them and begin again to build a society with a just, equitable and compassionate economy with justice, equality, and reverence for all life insured by the goals and forms of all its institutions.

  Manitonquat

  Justice Equality, Goal, Opinion

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• Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Law, Bars

  Woodrow Wilson (1969). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• To abandon yourself to rage is often to bring upon yourself the fault of another.

  Pope Agapetus I

  Anger, Faults, Rage

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• What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, People, Boredom

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• God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.

  Ernest Legouve

  Promise, Tears, Serious

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• the more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.

  Ayya Khema

  Ill Will, Hatred, Meditation

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• Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fantasy, Bumper Sticker, Settling

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• The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Disappointment, Order, Play

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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