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• What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

  Peter Viereck

  Air, Oxygen, Stopping

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• You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Children, Men, Giving

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.312, Macmillan

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• To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

  Ruskin Bond

  Hands, Tree, Trunks

  Ruskin Bond (2003). “Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas”, p.134, Penguin Books India

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• Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave tips when dining out of town. Julie Nelson reminds us that most people aren't really like that. She helps point the way to a richer, more descriptive way of thinking about economic life.

  Robert H. Frank

  Thinking, People, Presidential

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• Restoration and hope is available each time you return to God.

  Jim George

  Restoration, Turn To God, Available

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• Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But what of Him who gave us mortal life itself, who will ere long give us all immortality, and who proffers to the faithful the greatest gift of all, eternal life? We are poor bookkeepers, indeed!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Faith, Grateful

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• Jeff Klein, one of the earliest champions of Conscious Capitalism, offers a highly practical yet profoundly intuitive blueprint for achieving your purpose-and making a difference at work. You will return to Working for Good again and again. It belongs on your desk and in your heart.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Heart, Differences, Champion

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• I returned
  to confirm
  there can be no return.

  Anna Kamienska

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• In a world where inequality of ability is inevitable, anarchists do not sanction any attempt to produce equality by artificial or authoritarian means. The only equality they posit and will strive their utmost to defend is the equality of opportunity. This necessitates the maximum amount of freedom for each individual. This will not necessarily result in equality of incomes or wealth but will result in returns proportionate to service rendered.

  Laurance Labadie

  Mean, Opportunity, Income

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• Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Earth, Eternity

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.20, Editora Dracaena

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• Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

  Rumi

  Grieving, Joy, Forever

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• Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

  Eric Alterman

  Mad, Hell, Short Attention Spans

  "Who speaks for me?". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• A person who respects others is respected by others in return. Those who treat others with compassion and concern are protected and supported by others. Our environment is essentially a reflection of ourselves

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Reflection, Compassion, Environment

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• "In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Leaving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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• As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Justice, Honor

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• The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

  Knute Nelson

  Soul And Body, Soldier, Enemy

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• The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided - after weeks or months or sometimes years - that he likes you. It would be chulish and unfriendly of you not to return the compliment. And so, just when you are at last feeling comfortable with vous and all the plurals that go with it, you are thrust headlong in to the singular world of tu.

  Peter Mayle

  Taken, Years, Feelings

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• Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.

  Martiros Saryan

  Beautiful, Short Life, Men

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• We cannot afford the still-birth of new ideas that lack the life force that comes from the depths. We are called to return to the root of our being where the sacred is born. Then, standing in both the inner and outer worlds, we will find our self to be part of the momentous synchronicity of life giving birth to itself.

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Ideas, Roots, Self

  "Changing the Story" by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

  Tristan Jones

  Running, Oil, Waiting

  Tristan Jones (1998). “Ice!”, p.35, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.

  Hugh Jackman

  Block, Soon Enough, Ideas

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• When all is said and done, the unselfish acts of what we have done without asking for anything in return, will have said it all.

  Brian Jett

  Asking, Done, Unselfish Acts

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• The most important thing in all this world is that I know that I existed in the preexistence as a spirit child of my Heavenly Father; that I am here in mortality as part of his great plan for me in order that I may prove my worthiness to him by constantly making the proper choices between good and evil; and that if I prove myself worthy I will return to his presence.

  Rex D. Pinegar

  Children, Father, Order

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• From an endless dream we have come. In an endless dream we are living. To an endless dream we shall return.

  Andrea Kushi

  Love, Life, Dream

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