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• Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

  Audrey Meadows

  World, Comeback, Resurrection

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• I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Thinking, People, Ridiculous

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• I came through and I shall return.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, World, World War 2

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 21 Mar. 1942

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• In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

  Virgil Goode

  Distance, Organization, Long

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• The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

  Anaximander

  Science, Mystery, Destruction

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• Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.

  Tom Hayden

  War, White, House

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• There is a point of no return after which warming becomes unstoppable - and we are probably going to sail right through it. It is the point at which anthropogenic (human-caused) warming triggers huge releases of carbon dioxide from warming oceans, or similar releases of both carbon dioxide and methane from melting permafrost, or both. Most climate scientists think that point lies not far beyond 2 degrees C hotter (3.6 degrees F).

  Gwynne Dyer

  Lying, Ocean, Thinking

  "Four harsh truths about climate change" by Gwynne Dyerer, www.woodstocksentinelreview.com. December 4, 2008.

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• Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Oil, America, Environmental

  "The Tar Sands Disaster". www.nytimes.com. March 31, 2013.

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• When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country.

  George Washington

  Country, Soldier, Liberty

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Meanwhile, the minute you put on the dotted line your Sam Hancock - and before a notary - you'll not only get the negative but Elsie makes a wonderful stuffed cabbage which we'll include gratis a few portions but return the jars please.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humorous, Negative

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Blue, Sky

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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• But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as "supposing you ever want to eat again") eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.

  Robin McKinley

  Cutting, Desperate Measures, Hair

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• Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

  David Leavitt

  Writing, Bitter, Exhausted

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• God's love is just like the sun, constant and shining for us all. And just as the earth rotates around the sun, it is the natural order for us to move away for a season, and then to return closer, but always within the appropriate time.

  Betty Eadie

  God, Moving, Love Is

  Betty J. Eadie (1996). “The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans.

  Efim Geller

  Player, Years, Practice

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• I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless extremes; beseeching at the portals of the soft source, mad with a completely phsycial realization of the origins of life-bliss; blindly seeking to return the way he came

  Jack Kerouac

  Origin Of Life, Years, Jail

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.

  Grace Napolitano

  Years, Ideas, People

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• Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Decision, Voting, Death Penalty

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• Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

  Dale Carnegie

  Communication, Home, Criticism

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.17, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving, Energy

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• As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Long, People, Littles

  Kate Langley Bosher (1918). “Kitty Canary: A Novel”

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• And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and in its mirror you will see your image. You will knowthat when you hid from Nature, you hid from yourselfWe who have been turned away from Nature - if we desire life, we must establish a new relationship with Nature.

  A. D. Gordon

  New Relationship, Eye, Mirrors

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• We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.

  A.S. King

  Life, Stars, Dust

  A. S. King (2014). “Glory O'Brien's History of the Future”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Life, Land, Feet

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• A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Years, Endure

  "The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings".

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