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“It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!”

“The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.”

I Can Body Mother Universe Return Tongue Rhythm Sanctity Mother Tongue

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.”

Ifs House Happened Doors Team Return Concern Splits Severe Haircuts

Author:Sean Penn

“Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have.”

Wells Ideas Whole Lost Left Watches Kindness Fields Source Return All Things Intention Emanate

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.”

Giving Return Something New Expecting Buttons

Author:Misha Collins

“We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.”

Knows Humans Wells Ends Hard Stories Our Lives Return Pages Standards Disappear Collections Serving Nevertheless Being Human Anthology Countdown

Author:Junot Diaz

“My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.”

Kind My Own Teacher Share Return India West Awakening Inquiry

Author:Arjuna Ardagh

“Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend a great deal of time playing the piano because it really is my salvation at times. But I am perfectly happy just going on a long bike ride that takes many days to complete and staying away from music for a bit. It always feels so fresh when you return to the instrument with a different observation of things than when you were last there.”

Feels Wells Long Different Sometimes Lasts Bits Deals Return Instruments Salvation Observation Range Piano Staying Frank Bike Listening To Music

Author:Tony MacAlpine

“The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.”

Years Grows Results Numbers Return Investment Divides Percentages Annuals

Book:Beating the Street

Source: Beating the Street

“Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.”

“A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.”

Mind Wells Kind May Earth Heaven Enjoy Return Blessing Pure Degrees Slave Flesh Divinity Heavenly Virtuous Felicity

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.”

Knows Men Firsts Littles Wish Principles Return Conflict Filled Very Good Cease Good Man Patriotic Iniquity

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“I never hated any of my ex-fiances enough to return the rings.”

Enough Return Rings Hated Exes Fiance

Author:Zsa Zsa Gabor

“An investment in education always pays the highest returns.”

Pay Return Highest Investment Investment In Education

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I don't have much but I take all I got and that's what I give, what I get in return is the money I earn and the life I live.”

Giving Return

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.”

Self Seems Environment Return Gains Harmony Constant Speed Command Staying Over It Our Environment Discord Recurrence

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.”

Ideas Found Policy Return My Favorite Work Out Favorite Places Nordstrom

Author:JoAnn Ross

“It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.”

Feels Humans Long Has Beens Human Beings Strange Return Quiet Indifference Intervals

Author:Julia Ward Howe

“I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.”

Want Return Faults Divorce Spouse

Author:George Pell

“Your taxes are due a week from today. You can make out your check directly to Halliburton. Or you can do what I'm going to do. I'm filing my first joint return. No, I'm not getting married, I'm sending the IRS an actual joint with a note that says, 'If you think I'm paying for this war, you must be high.'”

Ifs Thinking Firsts War Today Can Do Week Return Taxes Married Notes Dues Checks Joints Getting Married Irs Make Out Filing

Author:Bill Maher

“Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”

Men Want Writing Heart Hard Return Gains Improving Want Something Improving Yourself

Author:Socrates

“If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it. If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the Legislature as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.”

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.”

Thinking Men Giving He Man Return Deserve Deceived

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.”

Ifs Giving Doe Book Lost Simple Clear Return Benefits Gains Sake Expenditures

Author:Seneca the Younger

“A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.”

Ifs Made Whole Earth Universe Space Flower Source Return Elements Clouds Sunshine Gardener Minerals

Book:The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.”

Littles Left Loss Produce Return Periods Rate Average Profit Decent Workout Gross Occasional Parking Meter Annuals Allowance Predictability Time Left Parking Meters

Author:Warren Buffett

“As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.”

People Long Made Able Form Term Security Return Offers Activity Investment Rate Permanent Long Term Pleasant Buying Grades Controlled Ownership Nevertheless Conjunctions

Author:Warren Buffett

“Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos.”

Way Humans Made Remember Form Desire Given Emotion Return Promise Various Storytelling Taboo Human Emotions

Book:Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who... love truly and honestly without demanding that they be loved in return.”

Beautiful Return Honestly

Book:Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

Source: Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.”

Ifs Return Obligation Merit Initiative Greetings Manifold

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.”

Long Matter Risk Return Schemes Trading Exposure Abnormal Skillful Haul Long Haul

Author:Alan Greenspan

“Sometimes the best way to learn is to return to the fundamentals.”

Way Sometimes Return Fundamentals Best Way

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Let sannyas be the turning point. That's what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards.”

Moving Journey Return Turning Points Moving Out

Author:Rajneesh

“What I gave out in the form of words would return to me as experiences.”

Form Return Return To Me

Book:The Power Is Within You

Source: The Power Is Within You

“No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.”

Men Difficult He Man Return Deserted

Author:Seneca the Younger

“[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.”

Self Lord Return Queens Embarrassing Exile Oxford Fart Flatulence

Author:Elizabeth I

“As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.”

Source: Survivor: The Ultimate Game : the Official Companion Book to the CBS Television Show

“I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.”

Thinking Sometimes Sound Wonderful Mines Return Rhythm Prose Slips Cadence Replicate

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“For Jewish people, salmon has a special meaning, not just because it's a flavor we've had all along our diaspora. Salmon also have this special return-to-their-roots desire. At the end of their lives, salmon try to swim back to when they were born. Even if they can't, they have this obsession. We as diaspora people love that a lot about salmon.”

People Ifs Trying Ends Desire Born Special Return Roots Obsession Swim Flavor Salmon Diaspora

Author:Charlemagne Palestine

“When you make a lotta money, you got a lotta people shooting at you. Anywhere you go, the tab goes up. People borrow stuff from you, you don't see it again - they figure, Hell, Moses ain't gonna miss it, why do I have to return it?”

People Stuff Hell Missing Figures Return Shooting Moses

Author:Moses Malone

“The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand nobodies out there who are probably making better music. Self-releasing is the only way to go.”

Way Want Self Return Thousand Hundred Labels Plus

Author:Tony Visconti

Long Matter Might Moving Spirit Wish One Thing Return Beloved Metamorphosis Lingering

Author:Gregory Orr

“Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.”

Way Inspirational Lines Wealth Views Money Millions Return Lucky Decided Fortune Bottom Prosperity Ruins Apples Bottom Line Net Worth

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“We're not paying a real price for carbon. If we were, we wouldn't be using as much. We need to have the right perspective. It's not just about next quarter's financial return. It's about where we want to be in ten years.”

Ifs Want Needs Years Real Next Perspective Return Ten Financial Quarters Carbon

Author:Katharine Hayhoe

“In general, Iranians believe that all Palestinians have the right to return home and that there is no chosen people on this earth, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian. Iran had the same policy towards apartheid South Africa and at the time when it was supporting and funding the ANC [African National Congress] among other groups in South Africa, these groups were also considered to be terrorist organizations by many western governments.”

People Believe Home Government Earth Christian Groups Policy Return Organization South Western Congress Terrorist Chosen Iran Palestinian South Africa Funding Apartheid

Author:Mohammad Marandi

“People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.”

People Return Faculty Veils Pierce

Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe even a mass extinction in the long term. Would the life on Earth be radically different? Of course we can't say for sure, but I think a lot of it would look familiar. Like a lot of people, I worry a lot about whether marine mammals would survive, especially whales. Ocean acidification is one of the major killers in climate change events, and that makes the ocean a very inhospitable place.”

“I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Stories Asks Term Return Towns Sells Agents If I Could Collections Short Story Rejected Linked Coming Back Pennies Manuscripts Writing Short Writing Short Stories

Author:Debra Dean

“I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year.”

Thinking Years I Can Ideas Sometimes Play Certain Enjoy Poet Return Ten Eternal Clubs Comedian Back Again Copenhagen

Author:Dean Wareham

“The question is not about whether it will work or not. It's how quickly we can pull it off. Structural change will happen. When economies grow, there comes a time when you cannot rely on investment alone. We had that. The return on investment is becoming less and less. So we have to change. The old model doesn't work anymore. It's a question of speed.”

Happens Grows Economy Return Becoming Models Investment Speed Rely There Comes A Time Return On Investment

Author:Zhang Xin

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