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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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• In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.

  Arthur William Galston

  Responsibility, Views, Scientist

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• Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.

  John F. Kennedy

  Struggle, Mean, People

  John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be misdemeanors is indicative of a blatant disregard for international human rights standards, one of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country's international reputation.

  Phil Robertson

  Life, Country, Book

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• Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Christian, Fall, Soul

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• I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

  Carrie Fisher

  Media, Talking, Want

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Carrie Fisher". Interview with Nancy Tobin, www.bphope.com. February 1, 2010.

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• [Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Exercise, Imagination, Effort

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• To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell, as of sin, which alone can send us thither. He who dreads sin avoids dangerous occasions, frequently recommends himself to God, and has recourse to the means of keeping himself in the state of grace. He who acts thus will be saved; but for him who lives not in this manner it is morally impossible to be saved.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mean, Grace, Impossible

  Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Catholic Way Publishing (2016). “The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]”, p.10616, Catholic Way Publishing

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• We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety. . . but ever have recourse to the adorable Heart of Jesus.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Jesus, Heart, Adorable

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• No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war).

  Margo Kingston

  Country, War, Air

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• Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Hate, Fall

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• Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

  Jane Austen

  Cousin, Hair, Diversity

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1085, Wordsworth Editions

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• ..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.

  Yukio Mishima

  Teacher, Father, Simple

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• Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.

  David Hume

  Spring, Intelligent, Secret

  David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.374

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• The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Evil, Atheism

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• Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.

  John Adams

  Art, America, Democracy

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.432, Regnery Publishing

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• There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

  Bridget of Sweden

  God, Christian, Recovery

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• The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for the result is an interference with his ability to feel, to be aware, and to remember.

  Alice Miller

  Baby, Soul, Ignored

  Alice Miller (2012). “Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries”, p.1, Anchor

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• I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Money, Writing, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.106, Ballantine Books

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• It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.

  Tennessee Williams

  Reality, Artist, Doe

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.102, New Directions Publishing

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• As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Crafts, Crowds

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• The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Philosophy, Evil, Faces

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.173, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.

  David Hume

  Order, Atheism, Unexpected

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.368

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• Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Healing, Responsibility, Choices

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• We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

  Dalai Lama

  Philosophy, Needs, Ethics

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