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• I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  World, Melancholy

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• To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Technology, Feels, Left

  "Bernardo Bertolucci: 'I thought I couldn't make any more movies'" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. February 01, 2013.

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• A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Successful, World

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press

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• In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.

  Henry Suso

  Voice, Saws, Firsts

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• While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

  Howard Gardner

  Book, Topics, Interest

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

  Max Brooks

  Summer, Thinking, Choices

  "'I’m Just A Zombie Nerd' The Max Brooks Interview, Part One". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

  Peter Dinklage

  Railroads, Stations

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.

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• I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people.

  David Caruso

  Tv Shows, People, Guy

  "AGENT ORANGE: David Caruso on SESSION 9". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 23, 2001.

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• My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Home, Animal

  "How Cheryl Strayed Found Her Path". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2012.

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• What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

  Austin Farrer

  Climate, Doe, May

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• There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

  Josh Radnor

  Lovely, Students, Melancholy

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

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• I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Animal, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate is sorrow

  Yi Mun-yol

  Pain, Hate, Soul

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• If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.

  Naji Sabri

  Mean, Responsibility, Baghdad

  "Iraq: Bush, not Saddam, should quit". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2003.

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• If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .

  Guru Nanak

  Husband, Son, Widows

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• Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Loss, Emotional

  Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.83, Trafford Publishing

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• The forest has shrunk
  And fear has expanded,
  The forests have dwindled,
  There are less animals now,
  less courage and less lightning,
  less beauty
  and the moon lies bare,
  deflowered by force and
  then abandoned.

  Visar Zhiti

  Fear, Lying, Animal

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• In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished - a word that for them has no sense - but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.

  Paul Valery

  Eye, Reflection, Irritation

  "Collected Works", vol. 1,("Recollection"), 1972.

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• The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Circles, Corporations

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The new industrial state”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must win and hold the voluntary adherence of its members. No pattern is imposed on everyone, and the result will be one pattern if and only if everyone voluntarily chooses to live in accordance with that pattern of community.

  Robert Nozick

  Struggle, Winning, Ifs And

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Philosophy, Historical

  "Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "Olitski, Kelly, Hamilton: Dogma and Talent", p. 62, 1975.

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• By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.

  Stanislav Grof

  Interesting, Drug, Understanding

  "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.

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• We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

  Dilma Rousseff

  Children, Fate, Cracks

  "Dilma Rousseff Wins Brazil's Presidential Election". www.theguardian.com. November 01, 2010.

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• For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Islands, Sea

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• History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps by only the most vocal men; it does not teach us whether the change was sound or whether the rejected view deserved to be rejected. Only an impartial analysis of the view in question, an analysis that is not dazzled by the victory or stunned by the defeat of the adherents of the view concerned - could teach us anything regarding the worth of the view and hence regarding the meaning of the historical change.

  Leo Strauss

  Men, Views, Historical

  "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.

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