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• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

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• In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an observation], and contrary to what is widely assumed by evolutionary biologists today, it has always been the anti-evolutionists [i.e creationist], not the evolutionists, in the scientific community who have struck rigidly to the facts and adhered to a more strictly empirical approach... It was Darwin the evolutionist who was retreating from the facts.

  Michael Denton

  Real, Community, Doctrine

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• The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Church, Limits, Environment

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• A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony

  Anthony Lawlor

  Confusion, Solitude, Unity

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Running, Philosophical, Heaven

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• Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Butterfly, Dark

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• To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.

  Paul Shepard

  Spiritual, Reality, Leader

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• Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

  Dan Barker

  Fear, Opposites, Safety

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific observations so as to explain the conflict, in the course of which they would make use of the concept of observation, or of some specification of that concept.

  Ernest Sosa

  Use, May, Study

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

  William Hazlitt

  Retirement, Heart, World

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1112, Delphi Classics

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• A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

  Benton MacKaye

  Nature, Escaping, Effort

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• The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.

  Chris Hedges

  Wall, Insane World, Mass Culture

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• The average age in the U.S. is now thirty-three, whereas Mexico gets younger and younger, retreats deeper and deeper into adolescence. Mexico is fifteen. Mexico is wearing a Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt and wandering around Tijuana looking for a job, for a date, for something to put on her face to take care of the acne.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Jobs, Average, Rocks

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Choices, Cost

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed”, p.16, Aeterna Press

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• The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

  Lewis Francis Herreshoff

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

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• No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

  John Gay

  Victory, Conquer, Dies

  John Gay (1983). “Dramatic Works”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

  Anthony Giddens

  Engagement, World, Demand

  Anthony Giddens (1991). “Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.184, Stanford University Press

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• Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Routine, Boots

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Wave, Harm, Havens

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• The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Tire, Camps

  Letter, 5 Jan. 1930.

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• Any Christian constitutionalist who retreats from this battle jeopardizes his life here and hereafter. Seldom has so much responsibility hung on so few, so heavily; but our numbers are increasing, and we who have been warned have a responsibility to warn our neighbor.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Christian, Responsibility, Numbers

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing. I play when I want. That means I can take off on a retreat, catch a matinee, make friends. My core desired feelings are my time management system.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Mean, Play, Focus

  "Danielle LaPorte | Multimedia Author, Speaker, Poet". Interview with Rachel Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

  Khalil Gibran

  Adversity, Hardship, Obstacles

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• Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create.

  David Lynch

  Hate, Stress, Negativity

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• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Cutting, Winning, Ships

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.34, Penguin

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