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• The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mistake, Miracle, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.375, Library of Alexandria

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• I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?

  John F. Kerry

  Art, School, Mean

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• Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge.

  Chiune Sugihara

  Bird, Hunters

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• Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

  Neil Postman

  Giving, Voting, News

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.69, Penguin

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• Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Beautiful, Atonement, Repentance

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• Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

  C. L. R. James

  Slave

  "The Black Jacobins". Book by C. L. R. James, 1963.

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• Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

  Emily Saliers

  Thoughtful, Hands, Rose

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• Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.

  Leila Aboulela

  Light, Practice, Giving

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• Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

  John Milton

  Cities, House, Liberty

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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• Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Tired, Heart

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• Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

  Carl Jung

  Psychology, Terror, Inner Life

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.209, Psychology Press

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• Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Country, Book, Home

  "The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero".

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• The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

  Plato

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Plato (1925). “Plato”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.

  Violet Trefusis

  Patience, Philosophical, Italian

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• The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Letting Go, Might

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• Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

  Roger Cohen

  World, Conspiracy, Force

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• Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

  Neal Boortz

  Scoundrels

  "Free talk with Neal Boortz". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, triblive.com. March 17, 2007.

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• A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

  Fernando Botero

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

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• Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Safe, Action, Reputation

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• Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.

  Dylan Moran

  Lonely, Cake, Talking

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• Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Consensus, Security

  "Christopher Hitchens: 'Freedom of speech means freedom to hate'". blog.skepticallibertarian.com. September 30, 2014.

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• Even though most people who reject Christianity treat it as a refuge for enemies of reason, the truth is that there may be no worldview in the history of the human race that has a higher regard for the laws of logic.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Race, Law, People

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• Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Bless, Belonging

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• To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about a square circle. Yet this is what Christmas says - and we take refuge from our bewilderment not in explanation but in adoration.

  Ralph P. Martin

  Men, Squares, Circles

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• You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Community

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