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• We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Thinking, Suffering

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.1981, Jester House Publishing

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• All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.

  Ken Grimwood

  Taken, Mean, Loss

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• Oh, here's your tax dollars at work. This is what makes people furious. The head of the GSA, a woman named Martha Johnson, has resigned after they found out she spent over $830,000 on a four-day government conference in Las Vegas. And the president is furious. Not President Obama, the president of China. It's his money. It's his money she spent.

  Jay Leno

  Vegas, Government, People

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• A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

  Ann Plato

  Situations In Life, May, Spheres

  Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

  Denis Hayes

  Important, Tools, Stones

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• I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Fate, Thinking, World

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Suffering, Weakness

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• I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me.

  Father Damien

  Giving Up, Sorry, Islands

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• 22 of 52 top (FDA) officials have worked for regulated industries, or organizations that cater to those industries...During a hearing held in 1969 by the House Inter-governmental Relations Subcommittee, it was disclosed that of 49 high ranking FDA officials who had recently resigned or retired, 37 joined or served as consultants to regulated industries.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Dark, Fda, Organization

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• For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Lying, Years

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

  Ezra Pound

  Letting Go, Country, Children

  "Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry".

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• Mild is the slow necessity of death;
  The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp,
  Without a groan, almost without a fear,
  Resigned in peace to the necessity;
  Calm as a voyager to some distant land,
  And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Land, Spirit

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.67, Modern Library

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• I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

  Jane Rule

  Thinking, Ideas, Clothes

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• It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.

  Ella Winter

  Acceptance, Down And, Sometimes

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• Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Guilt, Wells, Unfortunate

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: The Original Story”, p.183, Lettere Animate Editore

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• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  Harold Rosenberg

  America, Stories, Metamorphosis

  "The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 1473, October 30, 2003.

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• I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

  Jim Broadbent

  Fans, Sad Day

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• When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

  Tom Conti

  Girl, Air, Faults

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Expecting, Worst, Happens

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• Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

  Samuel Dash

  Unique, Play, President

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• Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Order, Color, Years

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.9, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

  Lance Armstrong

  Children, Cancer, Bravery

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• When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

  Scott Ritter

  Government, Issues, Going Out

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• John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.

  Tim Willits

  Cutting, Technology, Years

  "Doom Creator John Carmack Officially Leaves id Software". Interview with Mitch Dyer, www.ign.com. November 22, 2013.

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• I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Heavenly, Hard

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frances Schoonmaker (1999). “Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.30, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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