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Tag Name "Abandon" (501)

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No, I won't abandon hate. If I did, then nothing would be left of me.
Yana Toboso
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Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.
Blaise Pascal
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We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.
Philip Gulley
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I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.
Magic Johnson
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Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
Winston Churchill
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Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.
Isaac of Nineveh
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
Quintilian
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Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.
Peter Paul Rubens
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Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
Baron de Montesquieu
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There are standards. I like to be prepared, I guess I should say - that type of pressure of, All right, now you go with abandon, you know. Now when you're in it, you let go of all the things - that's what happens when you're onstage.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.
Emile Durkheim
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
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The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.
Carl Sagan
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Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.
Greg Child
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One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.
George Orwell
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We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Abraham Maslow
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Abandon the search for Truth settle for a good fantasy
Fran Lebowitz
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I spend money with reckless abandon. Last month I blew $5000 at a reincarnation. I got to thinking, what the hell, you only live once!
Ronnie Shakes
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They actually think I would abandon the Commander. they have no concept of loyalty.
Maria V. Snyder
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We aren't really called to save the world-not even to save one person Jesus does that. We are just called to love with abandon. We are called to enter into our neighbors' sufferings and love them right there.
Katie Davis
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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
George Bernard Shaw
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The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.
Andrew B. Newberg
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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