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When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

Gayle Forman

Law, Deposits, Equilibrium

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In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that is itself open, abundant and inclusive, it allows us to meet pain more directly. With direct seeing, we know that we are not alone in our suffering and that no one need feel alone when in pain. Seeing our oneness is the beginning of compassion, and it allows us to reach beyond aversion and separation.

Sharon Salzberg

Pain, Kindness, Compassion

Sharon Salzberg (2008). “The Kindness Handbook: A Practical Companion”, p.24, Sounds True

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The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.

Ulysses S. Grant

Strong, Patriotic, Government

"Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant". Book by Ulysses S. Grant. Chapter 16, www.gutenberg.org. 1885.

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There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

Sam Manekshaw

Badass, Military, Army

"Sam Manekshaw, soldier, died on June 27th, aged 94", www.economist.com. July 3, 2008.

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Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.

Loren Eiseley

Loneliness, Creativity, Dark

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Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light.

Sri Chinmoy

Real, Light, Meditation

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What is happening in Iraq now is awful, but it is a consequence of our invasion, not our withdrawal.

Chris Murphy

Military, Responsibility, Iraq

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT, twitter.com. June 13, 2014.

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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

Jack Kornfield

Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

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They are going to leave [Gaza], not because this is a gift from Israel. This is because they failed to confront our people, so don't describe their withdrawal from here...as a gift for the Palestinians. This is because they are defeated here. HAMAS will never recognize the existence of a Jewish State in the region.

Zuheir Mohsen

Islamic, Israel, People

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Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until last night, when withdrawal began.

Saddam Hussein

War, Night, August

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If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains

Ron Silver

Pain, Kids, Six

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Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

Henry A. Kissinger

Home, Troops, Peanuts

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The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.

Jefferson Davis

Government, League, Abuse

Jefferson Davis (1971). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head and the aural glitter of all those little eardrum hairs quivering like a drunk in withdrawal.

David Foster Wallace

Hair, Blood, Wind

"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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Only when we rid ourselves of passions and lust and put the desires of flesh under the control of Spirit, only then we accept the cross and follow Christ. And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Life, Passion, Lust

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Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat. I don't think there's any other way to argue it. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is a separate question.

Tucker Carlson

Thinking, Iraq, United States

"The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 7, 2005.

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On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Loss, Civilization, Creative

A Study of History (D. C. Somervell abridgement), bk. 4, ch. 13 (1947)

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By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.

Bernie Siegel

Fall, Mean, Talking

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When I get home from touring, I need to find something to match that so I don't get my adrenaline withdrawals. Being exposed to every element of danger while you're sitting on a motor -
that, to me, is freedom.

Mitch Lucker

Home, Needs, Sitting

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Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.

Timothy Egan

Running, Believe, Loss

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The crimes committed against the people of West Papua are some of the most shameful of the past years. The Western powers have much to answer for, and at the very least should use their ample means to bring about the withdrawal of the occupying Indonesian army and termination of the shameful exploitation of resources and destruction of the environment and the lives and societies of the people of West Papua, who have suffered far too much.

Noam Chomsky

Mean, Army, Past

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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal. A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women's movement, for instance, becoming "support-groups" or therapy groups.

Adrienne Rich

Thinking, Support, Needs

Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat.

Howard Dean

Iraq, United States, Would Be

Source: www.nbcnews.com

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A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

Thomas Moore

Distance, Home, Garden

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It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.

Edward Bunker

Pain, Agony, Broken

Edward Bunker (2012). “Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade”, p.261, Oldcastle Books

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