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• When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth.

  George Nakashima

  Cutting, Men, Tree

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• I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.

  George Tooker

  Dream, Reality, Mind

  Thomas H. Garver, George Tooker (1987). “George Tooker”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.

  Nicholas Delbanco

  Grief, Book, Men

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• We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Needs, Purpose, Next

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Soul, Strive, Made

  Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1953). “The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297): Or, The Flowing Light of the Godhead”

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• What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in her delicious fruits, To be listened to in her teaching, To be endured in the severity of her discipline, To be cared for as a maternal source from whence we come, a destiny to which we return. It's very simple.

  Thomas Berry

  Teaching, Simple, Destiny

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• Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.

  Omar Khayyam

  Love, Garden, Rose

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• That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

  Cynthia Weil

  Real, Writing, Creative

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler. So, it can be called great.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Desire, Doe

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• All things arise in unison. Thereby we see their return.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Arise, Unison

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• Return animosity with virtue.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Taoism, Virtue

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• Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.

  Laozi

  Taoism, World, Virtue

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• Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

  Laozi

  Writing, People, Taoism

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• Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

  Laozi

  Ties, People, Taoism

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• Use the light to return to clarity.

  Laozi

  Light, Taoism, Use

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• My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  London, Range

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.79, Wakefield Press

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• Jesus Christ has ‘marked the path and led the way’ for each of us. If we follow His lead, we will all return to our heavenly home and be safe in Heavenly Father’s arms.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Jesus, Father, Home

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• The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

  Richard J. Needham

  Normal, Strikes, Postal Service

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• Love does not expect anything in return

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Doe

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• We come from the earth, we return to the earth,
  and in between we garden.

  Alfred Austin

  Garden, Earth, Gardening

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• We are Heavenly Father’s children. He wants to be a part of our lives, to bless us, and to help us. He will heal our wounds, dry our tears, and help us along our path to return to His presence. As we look to Him, He will lead us.

  Carl B. Cook

  Children, Father, Tears

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• If we are in tune with the Spirit, if we are seeking the Lord and His guidance, if our direction is to return to our Father in Heaven, the sweet moments will come. And we will treasure them, for we have become instruments in the hands of God

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Sweet, Father, Hands

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• Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.

  Lauren Slater

  Fall, Mutation, Fever

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• Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self.

  Jim Trelease

  Heart, Compassion, Self

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• I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life.

  Richard Fortey

  Children, Home, Museums

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