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• In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Mindfulness, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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• I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

  Lionel Blue

  Christian, Giving, Political

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• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Land, Democracy, Relief

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• Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Years, Bird

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• I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

  Billy Bragg

  Song, War, Islands

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• Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Learning, May

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Years, Consciousness, Spontaneity

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• I came, then, to serve my Church first of all, and the whole world, that is, every person I find along my way. I serve and I will give of myself unto death so that there will be no distance between speaking and doing, so that the people will never again say, 'there is a chasm between us and the leaders' and word spread that the Church is far from her people. I know very well that our people are good and that they want from us today to go to them, to seek them out wherever they are, to search out the lost and return them joyfully to the fold. They hunger and thirst for the Word of God.

  Metropolitan Ephraim Kyriakos

  Spiritual, Distance, People

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• Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.

  Seth Godin

  Phones, People, Marketing

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

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• The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return, in order to cease and rest in it.

  Johannes Scotus Eriugena

  Order, Ends, Moved

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• One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

  Markus Wolf

  Giving, Overcoming, Paper

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• ...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

  Rita Mae Brown

  War, White, People

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• My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Country, Book

  Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.96, Moody Publishers

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• Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a thousand difficulties must be contemn'd with which a mean heart would be broken: many attempts must be made to no purpose: much Treasure must sometimes be scatter'd without any return: much violence, and vigour of thoughts must attend it: some irregularities, and excesses must be granted it, that would hardly be pardon'd by the severe Rules of Prudence.

  Thomas Sprat

  Mean, Heart, Science

  Thomas Sprat (1722). “The History of the Royal Society of London: For the Improving of Natural Knowledge”, p.392

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• The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses it stood once, and will return. There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Horse, Past

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.93, Counterpoint Press

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• I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the wayward winds. First the Earth gave the shimmer of greenery And grasses to deck the hills; then over the meadows The flowering fields are bright with the color of springtime, And for all the trees that shoot into the air.

  Lucretius

  Wind, Light, Air

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• As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

  Max Muller

  Pain, Cutting, Roots

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.164, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.

  Greg Laurie

  Wisdom, Thinking, Way

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• To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Drama, Air

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• The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

  B. C. Forbes

  Journey, Men, Belief

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• Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Destiny, Roots

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• Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

  Francis Bacon

  Exercise, Men, Reason

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• Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

  Publilius Syrus

  Confidence, Soul, Departed

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• Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes will take off into the night air and the night winds, sliding past and behind each other, zooming, turning and turning in the redness of the winds, living, never to return.

  Kathy Acker

  Airplane, Past, Night

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Empire of the Senseless”, p.112, Grove Press

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