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• The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

  George W. Bush

  Home, Science, Safety

  The Space Shuttle "Columbia" Tragedy Speech to the Nation, delivered 1 February 2003, White House Cabinet Room

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• Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.

  John Templeton

  Kindness, Positive Thinking, Years

  John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.182, Templeton Foundation Press

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• The words loved me and I loved them in return.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Book

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

  William Gurnall

  Prayer, Promise, Victory

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• Today is the day when bold kites fly,
  When cumulus clouds roar across the sky.
  When robins return, when children cheer,
  When light rain beckons spring to appear.
  
  Today is the day when daffodils bloom,
  Which children pick to fill the room,
  Today is the day when grasses green,
  When leaves burst forth for spring to be seen.

  Robert McCracken

  Cheer, Children, Spring

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• When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God's bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Prayer, Fall

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• What joy have I in June's return?
  My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn,
  I scent no flowery gust;
  But faint the flagging zephyr springs,
  With dry Macadam on its wings,
  And turns me 'dust to dust.'

  Thomas Hood

  Spring, June, Dust

  Thomas Hood (1866). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.488

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• How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection.

  Hsu Yun

  Spiritual, Light, Perfection

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• What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Liberty, Citizens

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “The Subjection of Women ... Third Edition”, p.180

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• Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Vision, Execution, Strategy

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• For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Prayer, Patriotic, Pride

  Telephone Talk With Apollo 11 Astronauts on the Moon, delivered 20 July 1969, Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth the brain and heateth and helpeth digestion' is made muddy and ill-flavoured! ... You may roast the berries 'to the queen's taste,' and grind them fresh every morning, and yet, if the golden liquid be not prepared in the most immaculate of coffee-pots, with each return of morning, a new disappointment awaits you.

  Janet McKenzie Hill

  Morning, Queens, Disappointment

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• Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No, my horses suit me; I will not sell them." Then he goes to my neighbor and says to him, "Joseph has some good horses. I want to buy them, but he refuses to sell." My neighbor answers, "Pay me the money and I will sell you Joseph's horses." The white man returns to me and says, "Joseph, I have bought your horses and you must let me have them." If we sold our lands to the government, this is the way they bought them.

  Chief Joseph

  I Like You, Horse, Native American

  Arguing against the right of the US Government to force his people to leave their lands, 1876.

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• How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

  Winston Churchill

  Educational, Home, School

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• There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for a soldier who returns after fleeing, and who valiantly pursues the enemy, than for one who never turned back, but who never acted valiantly either. A farmer has greater love for land which bears fruitfully, after he has cleared it of thorns, than for land which never had thorns but which never yielded a fruitful harvest.

  Pope Gregory I

  Land, Joy, Leader

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• From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible, disaster will ensue.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Enemy

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.54, Xist Publishing

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• A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

  Susan Faludi

  Rights, Justice, Feminism

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.

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• Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

  Satish Kumar

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• In those days contests were extremely rough and frequently cost the participants their lives. Thus, whenever I sallied forth to take part in any of those affairs, I invariably bade farewell to my parents, since I had no assurance that I should ever return alive.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Farewell, Parent, Alive

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• What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Revenge, Blow

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• In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

  Prince Philip

  Death, Suicide, Nwo

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• Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Gratitude, Home, Sacrifice

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• A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Clever, War

  James Clavell, Sun Tzu (2013). “The Art of War”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• Thus with the year
  Seasons return, but not to me returns
  Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
  Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
  Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• The words can not return.

  Horace

  Latin, Can Not

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