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“When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.”

“Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.”

Men Kind Book Guy Three Walks Five Return Library Miles Snow Cents Barefoot Library Books

Author:Jack Benny

“When most people return from Europe, they tell tales of all the sites they saw, the shopping, the entertainment, etc. Jews, on the other hand, return and say I had this slice of cake in Austria, let me tell you, I don't know how they make it! It was great!”

People Knows Hands Know How Saws Return Europe Let Me Jew Entertainment Tales Etc Cake Shopping Site Austria

Author:Jackie Mason

“I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them $800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference.”

Ifs Said Government Remember Differences Figures Return Paper Letters Spending Pentagon Irs Clip Paper Clips

Author:Emo Philips

“The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.”

Thinking Giving I Can Play Guy Movement Possibility Return Give Me Infinite Jazz Tunes Strings Fewer Thick Conventional Emphasis Chords Variation Infinite Possibilities

Author:Miles Davis

“I've always gotten myself overly involved in supporting other women who've not always been as supportive in return.”

Return Involved Supportive

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. (1928)”

Mind Persons Made Moments Life Is Dies Consciousness Fields Adventure Return Photography Interpretation Latent Great Adventure

Author:Pierre Mac Orlan

“I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they can sort their problems out, in return they introduce safeguards to ensure precisely what I said: that the single market is not fragmented and that important industries like the financial services industry are treated fairly. Not exceptional treatment, but are just simply treated fairly, on a level playing field within Europe.”

“External images act on me, transmit movement to me, and I return movement: how could images be in my consciousness since I am myself image, that is, movement?”

Consciousness Movement Return Transmit

Book:Cinema I: The Movement-Image

Source: Cinema I: The Movement-Image

“Conversation can be a learning experience for everyone. I never hesitate to reach out when I'm in over my head, and I'll never hesitate to return the favor.”

Return Conversation Favors Reach Out Learning Experience

Author:Mark Mason

“The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's not supposed to be a paramilitary force. It's not good at it. It needs to return to its roots.”

Needs Force Secret Return Roots Organization Stealing Supposed To Be Transformed Spy Cia Recruit

Author:John Kiriakou

“I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.”

Believe I Believe Poet Return Paper Losing Flesh Cease Soviet Citizenship

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“But it's been funny to try and carry the through line, but I think the main thing is the relationship that the band has because we have spent now all this time together that I think that's sort of what we returning to. And whenever we get to play together, it still sort of returns to that little shitty rehearsal space. So that's good.”

Thinking Trying Littles Stills Play Together Lines Space Return Band Rehearsal Time Together

Author:Alison Pill

“I get thousands of requests for mentorship, but they don't offer anything in return, like filing, cleaning my house, or something. All too often, it's "please mentor me; I need my shot." But they don't offer anything in return.”

Needs House Return Please Offers Shots Mentor Cleaning Request Filing

Author:Ryan Blair

“I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the law of diminishing returns.”

Want Ideas Law Hate Subjects Return I Hate Repeats Recycling Diminishing Returns

Author:Neil Cross

“My decision to return to the MLS is one that I have made with thoughtful consideration.”

Made Decision Return Usa Thoughtful Consideration

Author:Landon Donovan

“The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.”

Return Army Defence

Author:H. H. Asquith

“We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.”

Mean Helping Home Jobs Return Members Tough Transition Preparing Veteran Civilians

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“Every night, my girlfriend comes home from work, and she brings with her a houseplant. She's like, 'Anthony, I had to pick this up. We need a houseplant in our apartment.' And every night, I make her return it. I say, 'No way, baby. You can't take care of a houseplant. You couldn't even keep your baby alive.'”

Way Needs Home Care Night Alive Baby Return Picks Take Care Girlfriend Coming Home Every Night Apartment My Girlfriend

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.”

Ifs Heart Return Summer Refuse Als About Yourself Al Qaeda

Author:Christian Finnegan

“What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art.”

Art Important Moments Views Awareness Return Photography Notion Point Of View Instant Surprising Brief Moments

Author:Raoul Hausmann

“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”

“[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse into atoms and molecules. Footprints in the snow will be erased by the next storm. The evidence of evil, like the evidence of good, obeys the universal laws of entropy. Heat cools, matter disintegrates, memories fade. If we let them.”

“I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles. I would smoke a joint with some hippies on the grass, then go do some more pictures.”

Bigs Sun Return Discipline Photograph Circles Smoke Grass Squares Afternoon Joints Hippie

Author:Max Pam

“The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.”

Long Moments Lasts Past Return Lovers Photography Curiosity Fixed Instant Zero Fascinated Spectators Fascination Captured Duration

Author:Peter Wollen

“Essential to our personal faith and development is the unmistakable knowledge that our Father and our Savior want us to succeed. They want us to return to Their presence. Because of Their love for us, They have given us resources to obtain comfort, direction, and strength for our journey home. I speak of prayer, the wonderful and sublime ability to communicate and share our concerns with the Father; the Holy Spirit, which will enlighten and comfort us; and the words of the prophets, both ancient and modern. These resources give us understanding and direction in dealing with our challenges.”

“Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness. Healing, health, whole and holy all mean inclusiveness. Body, mind, spirit, environment, relationships, social interactions are all one wholeness, and you're a part of that one wholeness.”

Mind Mean Whole Body Spirit Social Memories Healing Environment Return Holy Interaction Wholeness Mind Body Spirit Social Interaction Inclusiveness

Author:Deepak Chopra

“You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life.”

Might Return Doctors Singers Oxygen Tents

Author:Patsy Cline

“The world is a spinning die, and everything turns and changes: man is turned into angel, and angel into man, and the head into the foot, and the foot into the head. Thus all things turn and spin and change, this into that, and that into this, the topmost to the undermost, and the undermost to the topmost. For at the root all is one, and salvation inheres in the change and return of things.”

Men World Dies Turns Feet Return Angel All Things Roots Salvation Spinning

Book:Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings

“The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.”

“Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.”

Heart Return

Author:Dogen

“No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.”

Men States Light Lost Natural Differences Christianity Return Our Time Possessed Pagan Unmarried Married Women Natural Light

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.”

Soul Self Return Seeking Gods Will Gates Abandonment

Author:Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

“When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.”

Rooms Moral Teach Crime Students Fine Return Ethics Expected Commit Rational Instill Misconduct

Author:Cory Doctorow

“When we feel sad, all we need to do is to count our blessings, no matter how few we notice, so we can feel grateful for what we have been given. Sadness soon disappears and, in return, we get inspired to bless others.”

Needs Feels Has Beens Matter Given Sadness Return Blessing Grateful Inspired Disappear Bless

Author:Akiane Kramarik

“Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."”

Ifs Should Next Sin Struggle Return Succeed Army Asking Winter Congress Sat Britain Repent Whispering Great Britain Baltimore Fear God

Author:Benjamin Rush

“Sometimes a man gets carried away when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind to see the damage he's done, oh sometimes a man must awake to find that really he has no one. So I'll wait for you and I'll burn will I ever see your sweet return, oh will I ever learn? Oh, Lover you should've come over. Oh love well I'm waiting for you.”

Men Feels Should Wells Sometimes Done Fun Waiting Sweet Return Lovers Blind Awake Damage Over You Waiting For You Carried Away

Author:Jeff Buckley

“God spoke to me clearly and said, 'Did I give my son Jesus on the cross expecting nothing in return?' God bankrupted heaven and gave the best gift he could give. He gave the best offering he could give. What did God need? He needed sons and daughters, he gave the very thing he needed. You can bring God a gift fully expecting something in return. Get to the phone!'”

“I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires. I was very sick, with chills and sweats, but against my better judgement I let them talk me into singing. Of course I gave the performance everything I had and my voice was hurt. It was scary at first, but fortunately there was no permanent damage. I just had to be patient and wait for the voice to return. It took six weeks of physical recuperation and it took time to recover my confidence as well.”

Firsts Wells Courses Waiting Voice Hurt Week Return Six Singing Performances Sick Patient Scary Permanent Judgement Damage Injury Sweat Chill Be Patient Flu Andrea Buenos Aires Recuperation

Author:Ben Heppner

“The church generation in which Jesus returns will actively participate in this revolution. ... My premise: Many people alive today will see this revolution in their lifetime.”

People Today Jesus Church Alive Generations Revolution Return Lifetime Premises Live For Today

Author:Mike Bickle

“There is a saying that Heaven is internal, humanity external and Virtue comes from the Heavenly. Know Heaven and humanity's actions, root yourself in Heaven and follow Virture.Then you can bend, stretch, rush forward or hold back, because you will always return to the core and it will be said you have achieved the supreme.”

Knows Said Action Humanity Heaven Virtue Return Roots Core Supreme Internals Heavenly

Author:Zhuangzi

“The coming cooling of the planet overall will return it to where it was in the '60s, '70s, and '80s.”

Planets Return 80s Cooling

Author:Joe Bastardi

“There is the need for an intimate romantic relationship with the father. Abundant joy and an intimate personal receiving of God's love should be our priority because you can never get enough of this, people return again and again to swim in the river or soak in the son.”

People Needs Should Enough Joy Father Son Return Rivers Priorities Intimate Swim Receiving Again And Again God's Love Romantic Relationship

Author:John Arnott

“As fanatical as it may sound to fundamental evangelical Christians, the Church is destined to subdue all things and put all things under Christ's feet before He actually literally returns from heaven. Father God said to Jesus, "Sit thou at my right hand until I make all your enemies your footstool.".”

May Said Hands Christian Father Jesus Heaven Sound Christ Church Enemy Feet Return All Things Fundamentals Destined Evangelical

Author:Bill Hamon

“The result of these ungodly unions was a race of very wicked and very powerful hybrid (half-fallen angel, half-human) offspring - the Nephilim - who corrupted, harassed, even killed mankind. Now, at the end of the 20th century, we have the return of "alien" entities with apparent supernatural powers.”

Humans Ends Results Powerful Race Half Mankind Century Return Angel Unions Aliens Fallen Wicked Entity 20th Century Very Powerful Offspring Hybrid Fallen Angels Supernatural Powers Nephilim

Author:Chuck Missler

“An ordinary day. I get up early, drive to the airport, from there driving to the arena where we wrestle. Then if we have a show I will take another plane for my destination. Otherwise I will take a plane to return home and fall in bed very, very late.”

Ifs Shows Home Fall Return Bed Late Ordinary Driving Get Up Planes Destination Arena Airports Up Early Ordinary Days

Author:Chris Jericho

“There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation.”

Growth Views Return Periods Crisis Debate Norm Stagnation

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech for a brief time and returns home. His fake ghetto books have bought him a townhouse in Gramercy Park and home on Staten Island.”

Writing Made Book Home Black Return Speech Fortune Fake Islands Parks Ghetto Cab

Author:Ishmael Reed

“Start with the least amount of money possible. Some people say they need a certain amount to start, and I say you need a half of that or a third of that. That gives you the biggest return. If you put all your eggs in one basket, it's harder to adapt when you need to. Unless it's very capital-intensive, you don't need much money.”

People Ifs Needs Giving Certain Half Return Amount Thirds Harder Eggs Baskets Eggs In One Basket

Author:Cameron Johnson

“This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal government stolen by the Chinese and he's done nothing in return.”

People Done Government President Records Return Barack Chinese Federal Government Stolen President Barack Obama Personnel

Author:Chris Christie

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