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• Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Creative, Lasts

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• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

  Charles Dickens

  Taken, Skeletons, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The author of the remark probably meant to assert that a man or a system may have become famous on the continent, while we are almost ignorant of the name of the man and the claims of his system. Perhaps, however, a wider range might be given to the assertion. An exploded theory or a disadvantageous practice, like a rebel or a patriot in distress, seeks refuge on our shores to spend its last days in comfort if not in splendour.

  Isaac Todhunter

  Science, Men, Practice

  Isaac Todhunter (1873). “The Conflict of Studies and Other Essays on Subjects Connected with Education”, p.136, London : Macmillan

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• The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Girl, Education, Teacher

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• One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

  T. E. Hulme

  Philosophy, Doe, Definitions

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.77, Psychology Press

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• We must like Moses cover ourselves with faith and humility while we steal a quick look at the God whom no man can see and live. The broken and the contrite heart He will not despise. We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God passed by. We must take refuge from God in God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Jesus

  "The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life".

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• Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Air, Castles, Easy

  The Master Builder act 3 (1892)

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• A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Meaningful, Men

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• Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mind, Glitter, Laziness

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 20 July 1749

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• Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Use, Kind

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• I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.

  Johannes Kepler

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

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• Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

  Dean Koontz

  Family, Disappointment, Home

  Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman (2007). “Frankenstein: City of Night: A Novel”, p.177, Bantam

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• It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world

  Dalai Lama

  Dream, People, Humanity

  "Nobel lecture". www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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• Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for allowing the terrible facts to be sunk deep in the memory hole. All of this is of great significance, as it has been in the past.

  Noam Chomsky

  Memories, Past, Church

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.46, Seven Stories Press

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• The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss (Sat-chit-ananda). He is now at Puttaparthi as the Effulgent Emperor over the region of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Embodiment, Awareness, Bliss

  "Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 13: 1975-1977". Discourses by Sri Sathya Sai Baba, www.sssbpt.info.

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• Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

  Milla Jovovich

  Cutting, Thinking, Needs

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• Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Life, Change, Travel

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• The same Divine Compassion that blessed Dharma; saved Gajendra; restored Kuchela; and stood by Prahlada, has come to the Earth as the Refuge of the refugeless; as the Lord of Peace, Harmony and Righteousness; as the Lord of all the Worlds; as the Sath-Chith-Anandamurthi; and as the Puttaparthi Sathya Sai Sath-Chakravarthi - the King of Kings.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Kings, Blessed, Compassion

  "Sathya Sai Speaks, Volume 26: 1993". Discourses by Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Discourse of October 21, 1993), www.sssbpt.info.

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• We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.

  Vijay Prashad

  Song, Lonely, Xenophobia

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• We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Truth, Pride, Telling The Truth

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.24, Tuttle Publishing

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• Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

  Pierre Berton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

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• With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

  Sara Teasdale

  Music, House, Shining

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sarcasm, Lasts, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.

  John G. Lake

  Prayer, Dodge, Action

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• Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Numbers, Unity, Amphibians

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