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• For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

  Confucius

  Life, Revenge, Justice

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• Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.

  Richard J. Daley

  Doors, Political, Stories

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• What’s the likelihood? That the one girl who makes my heart race is the one girl who wants me in return? That the accident of my attraction coincides with the accident of hers?

  Eleanor Catton

  Girl, Heart, Race

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• The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

  Seneca the Younger

  Relaxation, Mind, May

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• Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

  Mason Cooley

  Retirement, Youth, Invention

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• Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can repair some of the damage we have done to our environment. The most extreme liberals believe that there is an original or a natural state in which the environment would be if we hadn't shown up on the scene, and that we have not only the ability but also a moral imperative to help nature return to this state.

  Deborah Needleman

  Art, Believe, People

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• The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Christian, Cutting, Harm

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• Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.

  John Calvin

  Love, Hate, Blessing

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• Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Mean, Light, Self

  Dennis Kucinich's Address to the Praxis Peace Institute Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 9, 2002.

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• Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Body

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• Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people - of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Years, People

  "President and President Putin Discuss Strong U.S.-Russian Partnership". Statement in press release, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 24, 2005.

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• I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.

  Andy Serkis

  Age, Middle East, Done

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 27, 2003.

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• My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Kings, Children, Promise

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• Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?

  Ira Reiss

  Strong, Children, Biblical

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• I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

  Edward Snowden

  Suffering, Government Spying, Information

  "Snowden made cautious approach to Post reporter, said he knew the risk he's taking", www.foxnews.com. June 9, 2013.

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• Let us ask the Lord for the grace to take these things seriously. He came to fight for our salvation. He won against the devil! Please, let us not do business with the devil! He seeks to return home, to take possession of us Do not relativize; be vigilant! And always with Jesus!

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Home, Fighting

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• When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I  wasted any more time on tobacco.”“After I die I shall return to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello and I won't let a one of you in.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Believe, Earth, Firsts

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• It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Use, Want, Agree

  "Web creator rejects net tracking" By Rory Cellan-Jones, news.bbc.co.uk. March 17, 2008.

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• I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

  Giordano Bruno

  Atheism, Praying, Trouble

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proud—crime, doesn't it rumble in the distant thunder, and don't you see how the sky grows ominously silent and gloomy?

  Max Stirner

  Sky, May, Proud

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• Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Order, Challenges

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• Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Joy, Missionary, Eternity

  Twitter post from Aug 02, 2016

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• Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible, and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistance which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States?

  Gilles Deleuze

  War, Thinking, Organization

  Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (1987). “Dialogues”, Burns & Oates

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• I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.

  Minnie Bruce Pratt

  Falling In Love, Writing, Self

  "Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write" By Minnie Bruce Pratt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

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• For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.  As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.  That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.  When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.  We call this the moment of death.  That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

  Bill Viola

  Ocean, Moving, Water

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