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• My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.

  Neil Oliver

  Father, Self, Kitchen

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• So far, the official definitions of terrorism have the role of demonizing the enemies of the United States and Israel, and of sanitizing recourse to indiscriminate force by both governments that causes widespread death of innocent civilians. This double standard is built around the current way in which the vocabulary of terrorism is being used in this country.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Vocabulary, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Right now people think God is dark energy and dark matter, the spirit. Go ahead and think that, but the day we can tell you exactly what it is - that it's gremlins in the vacuum of space or whatever - then what's your recourse at that point?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

  Alan Moore

  Stress, Past, Reality

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.

  Christopher Paolini

  Dark, Trying, Scare

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• What does it mean then to live with one another? It can be unhappy, it can be wretched, it can be ambivalent, it can even be full of antagonism, but all of that can play out in the political sphere without recourse to expulsion or genocide. And that is our obligation, to stay in the sphere with whatever murderous rage we have, without acting on it.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Play, Political

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• ...Having no recourse, I feel back on Shakespeare. Leif would recognize it and understand the context properly. With my remaining few seconds of consciousness, I quoted Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing, who spoke these words to his former friend: "you are a Villain: I jest not." and then I collapsed into a pool of my own blood.

  Kevin Hearne

  Blood, Consciousness, Pool

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• The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth. This enables her to train us and to mold us with the same care, until Christ is ''fully formed'' in us... Why should we not once more have recourse to the Rosary, with the same faith as those who have gone before us?

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Home

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• We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Facts, Bears

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.20, e-artnow sro

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• Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

  Laura Davies

  Children, Pain, Hate

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• All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse to expedient devices, Need have no more doubts or uncertainties. Your hearts shall give rise to great joy, Since you know that you yourselves Shall become Buddhas.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teacher, Buddhist, Heart

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• The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Past, Ideas

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• But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose), has recourse to the first Cause but for its general and ordinary Support and Influence, whereby it preserves Matter and Motion from Annihilation or Desition; and in explicating particular phenomena, considers onely the Size, Shape, Motion, (or want of it) Texture, and the resulting Qualities and Attributes of the small particles of Matter.

  Robert Boyle

  Science, Support, Quality

  Robert Boyle, John James MacIntosh (2005). “Boyle on Atheism”, p.326, University of Toronto Press

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• Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.

  Mors Kochanski

  Fire, Survival, Shelter

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• Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend - or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Jail, Justice

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953".

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• [T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

  Eugene Wigner

  Law, Consciousness, Mechanic

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• We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Genius, Ears, Talent

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• One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the grandchild. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Children, Abundance

  Leonardo da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art”, p.205, 谷月社

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• It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or for raw materials, international friction would be reduced. This would merely put a contest of force in the place of what can only metaphorically be called the "struggle" of competition and would transfer to powerful and armed states, subject to no superior law, the rivalries which between individuals had to be decided without recourse to force.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Powerful, Struggle, Law

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

  June Jordan

  Law, Justice, United States

  June Jordan (1992). “Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union”, Pantheon

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• Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Atheism, Hypothesis

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• The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

  Leon Trotsky

  Wisdom, Party, Politics

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• Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as a refuge. Resort to no other refuge. Whosoever, either now or after I am gone, shall be islands unto themselves, shall seek no eternal refuge, it is they, among my disciples who shall reach the very topmost height! But they must be keen to progress.

  Gautama Buddha

  Islands, Independence, Progress

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• We know the potentiality of Nigeria and the talent and the resources and to see it having no effect on the lives of the people, on the infrastructure, the roads, the hospitals, the schools, seeing no effect of these talents, these recourses is very frustrating. But it is the result of the damage that was done to the country, especially during the various military regimes.

  Chinua Achebe

  Country, Military, School

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• We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

  Deepak Chopra

  Movement, Spirit, Intellect

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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