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• Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

  Oscar Wilde

  Rainy Day, Weather, Lasts

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• To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Teaching, Mean, Essence

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• Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2157, e-artnow

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• Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Failure, Ambition

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Kids, Sanctuary

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• The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

  Charles P. Kindleberger

  Lasts, Firsts, Derivatives

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• All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

  Menander

  Friends, Good Friend, Men

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• The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Strong, Rocks, Defense

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• The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.

  J.R. Miller

  Rocks, Land, Sorrow

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• The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Travel, Home

  You Never Can Tell (1898) act 2

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• There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

  Toni Morrison

  Beloved, Difficult, Handle

  "The Bluest Eye". Book by Toni Morrison, 1969.

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• Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things

  Gilles Deleuze

  Thinking, Vanity, Ease

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• In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Sleep, Thinking, Insomnia

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• Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Lasts

  "Offensive Remarks Are Part of Free Speech" by Hilary Hirschfeld, www.smudailycampus.com. October 22, 2008.

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• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• If a lion is not accepted in its own den, it will find no refuge in the rest of the jungle.

  Wes Fesler

  Acceptance, Lions, Accepted

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• Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

  Michael Crichton

  Safety, Patriotism, Lasts

  Michael Crichton (2000). “Timeline”

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• Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Boies Penrose

  Office, Political, Patriotism

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• Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.

  Reb Anderson

  Mean, Enlightenment, Example

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• There is no refuge from yourself.

  Matt Rasmussen

  Matt Rasmussen, “Elegy In X Parts [Kafka Said, A Book]”

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• College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, College, Judgment

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• Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Biography, Comedy, Drama, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

  Gilbert Parker

  Memories, Stupid, World

  Gilbert Parker (1798). “Mrs. Falchion”, p.206

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• The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

  George Carlin

  Men, Answers, Lasts

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• Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

  Hannah More

  Anger, Character, People

  Hannah More (1835). “The works of Hannah More”, p.106

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