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• The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, Soldier

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• It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.

  Ian Fleming

  Missing, Enemy, Might

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Country, Spiritual, Morning

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• I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

  Lionel Blue

  Christian, Stills

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• I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

  George Washington

  Sweet, Retirement, Freedom

  George Washington (1851). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.337

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• Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Adventure, Swimming

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• Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

  S. D Gordon

  Jesus, Prayer, Names

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• MC's they retreat cause they know I can beat 'em,
  And eat 'em in a battle and the ref won't cheat 'em.
  I'm the best takin' out all rookies,
  So forget Oreos...eat Cool J cookies.

  LL Cool J

  Rap, Hip Hop, Battle

  Song: I'm Bad

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• These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Strong, September 11

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• The terrorist attacks on September the 11th were a turning point for our nation. We saw the goals of a determined enemy to expand the scale of their murder and force America to retreat from the world. And our nation accepted a mission. We will defeat this enemy. The United States of America is determined to guard our homeland against future attacks. As the September 11th Commission concluded, our country is safer than we were three years ago, but we are not yet safe

  George W. Bush

  Country, Years, America

  "On the Story" with Maria Hinojosa, www.cnn.com. September 11, 2004.

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• Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Spiritual, Psychological

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• Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

  Heinrich Heine

  Mean, Solitude, Individuality

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• The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Fall, Mean, Library

  Gretel Ehrlich (2010). “The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold”, p.53, Vintage

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• Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.

  Mel Brooks

  Friday, Monday, Sunday

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• I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.

  Dave Cook

  Lying, Climbing, Brain

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• That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

  Jim Elliot

  Saint, Knees

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• The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

  Ed Viesturs

  Art, Knowing, Mountain

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• If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

  Benito Mussolini

  Sheep, Years, One Day

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• Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like yoga or Tai Chi or Qigong built into the day - and serve as a calming retreat from the daily demands of life. Muslims thus learn to balance deeni wa dunyavi (the spiritual and the worldly). They can't abandon one for the other; that's the essence of their faith.

  Haroon Siddiqui

  Spiritual, Prayer, Yoga

  Haroon Siddiqui (2010). “Groundwork Being Muslim”, p.59, A&C Black

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• In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have recourse to a ruse as well as open attack; but in matters of principle there can be no tactics, there is one straight forward course to follow and that course must be found and followed without swerving to the end.

  Terence MacSwiney

  Battle, Principles, Use

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• A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Memories, Criticism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, Army, Two

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2012). “Mahan on Naval Warfare”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Strong, War

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Trying, Hollywood

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• Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Bravery, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (1979). “Collected Works”

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