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• To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

  George Eliot

  Women, Thinking, Winning

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.529, Broadview Press

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• We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  War, Mean, Differences

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• We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

  Simone Weil

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.34, Psychology Press

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• Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Endurance, World, Patient

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• [On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they demand that intolerance be granted a dignified place at the table.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Names, Tolerance, Demand

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• The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Death, Expectations, World

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• To renounce things is not to give them up. It is to acknowledge that all things go away.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Giving, Going Away, Acknowledge

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• Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

  Aaron Klein

  Israel, Organization, Violence

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• After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Past, Challenges, Soul

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• The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Office, Atheism

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, History, Peers

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• Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Happiness, Art, Truth

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Believe, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Graphic Arts Books

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• I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Giving, Atheism

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• The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving Up, Simplicity, Favors

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

  Lois Capps

  Israel, Authority, Should

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• I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.  I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself.  I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’

  Anais Nin

  Dream, World, May

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• A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Believe, Men

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• At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new
  day of a most precious delusion.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Night, New Day, Doubt

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• The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are satanic contrivances.

  Pope Pius IV

  Book, People, Satanic

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• No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Believe, Book, Writing

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't misunderstand my statement. What is, is good. Nothing will happen either by dropping things and escaping from them or by clinging to them. Remain where you are, but begin the search within. Much outer searching has already been done, now go within. Now know the one, in this knowing one attains all. All desires are at once fulfilled.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Home, Escaping

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• To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Rights, Humanity

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Men, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1646, Manonmani Publishers

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• Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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