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“To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.”

“Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.”

Love Hands Love Is Return Boomerang Throwers

“You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them.”

People Ifs World Way Want Mean Stills I Can Book Culture Reading Asks Answers Fiction Changed Return Reader Scandal

Book:Conversations with Philip Roth

Source: Conversations with Philip Roth

“The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.”

Ideas States Whole Minutes Return South Israel Borders Folly Relevant Sheer Vocabulary Versus Erase Lebanon Hezbollah

Author:Amos Oz

“Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.”

Ifs Giving May Matter Care Accepting Economic Minutes Return Program Economics Accounts Claims Meetings Series Doctrine Italian Fascism Assembly Crumbling Guilds Pointers

Author:Benito Mussolini

“We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.”

Doe Two Reason Problem Lying Values Quality Return Function Absolutes Treatment Superstitions Balanced Arbitrary Positively Critique Obsessive Two Options

Author:John Ralston Saul

“No man is an island. You can ask people for help and they can ask for your help in return.”

People Men Helping Asks Return Islands

Author:Mr Hudson

“Christlike communications will help us to develop righteous relationships and ultimately to return to our heavenly home safely. May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.”

May Helping Use Home Journey Divine Communication Return Treasure Heavenly Mortality Righteous Marvelous Heavenly Home

Author:L. Lionel Kendrick

“I forget, because it’s hard to realize that the same person who gives you so much love, and to whom you give so much in return, can go through the kinds of pain and suffering that nothing you do can alleviate.”

Giving Kind Persons Hard Pain Suffering Realizing Forget Return Much Love Pain And Suffering Alleviate

Book:This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Source: This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

“We all have come from infinity, We all live within infinity, We all shall return to infinity, We are all manifestation of one infinity, We are all brothers and sisters of one infinite universe, Let us love each other, Let us help each other, Let us encourage each other, Let us all together continue to realize The endless dream of one peaceful world, We are always ONE forever.”

“God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.”

Should Asks Sex Wife Willing Return Commit Restraint Adultery Lechery Committing Adultery

Author:Saint Augustine

“Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.”

Men Soul Mother Three Given Heaven Return Live By

Book:What Men Live By

Source: What Men Live By

“The evil you do to others you may expect in return.”

May Evil Return

Author:Publilius Syrus

“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.”

Men World Book Return Thousand

Author:Jonathan Swift

“War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.”

Ifs Men War Values Lost Regret Return Oneself Appreciation Resilience Sensitive Delicacy

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.”

Way Company Knowing Loneliness Fine Return Findings Opposites Being Yourself Desirable Landing

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.”

Men Giving Kind Important War Bigs Lying Hate Sacrifice Identity Particular He Man Return I Hate Meetings Theme Urges Broads Adore Emergencies Alarms National Identity Things I Hate

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.”

Way Littles Culture Community Media Fields Return Understood Patterns Norm Unified Tribalism Cohesion Electronic Media

Book:Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication

“From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.”

Want May Said Ideas Return Slavery Slave

Book:The Booker T. Washington Reader

Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader

“Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return.”

Night Born Return Eternity New Day

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.”

Life Hands Life Is Interest Pleasure Return Demand Treasure Borrowed Shylock

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“When the warrior returns, from the battle afar,To the home and the country he nobly defended,O! warm be the welcome to gladden his ear,And loud be the joy that his perils are ended:In the full tide of song let his fame roll along,To the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng,Where, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.”

Country Home Form Joy Song Return Battle Fame Ears Brave Wave Warm Welcome Warrior Loud Boards Tides Peril Brows Afar Olives Laurels Wreaths

Book:Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq

Source: Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq

“Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.”

Should Long Lasts Evil Kindness Return

Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in reaction to the emptiness of this self-affirmation, the desire to return to a collective. Schlegel, and with him many extreme individualists in the last hundred years, became Roman Catholics. The courage to be as oneself broke down, and one turned to an institutional embodiment of the courage to be as a part.”

“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.”

“The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.”

Ends Pleasure Rooms Journey Return Seeking Variety Cells Cycles Over It Locked Thrill Hunters Spectators Starting Over Sexually Repetitive Promiscuous

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“Now Spring returns; but not to me returns.”

Return Spring

Book:The Works of Michael Bruce: Ed. with Memoir and Notes

Source: The Works of Michael Bruce: Ed. with Memoir and Notes

“Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.”

Country Childhood Youth Return Bears Remains Tales Agents Fairy Comparison Fairy Tale Traveler Recollection Early Childhood

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”

“When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.”

Men World Way War Enough Care Young Winning Numbers Gone Return Men And Women Soldier Harm Obligation Secure Young Man Shade Troops Solemn Fudge

Author:Barack Obama

“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.”

May Has Beens Hard Play Values Force Challenges Progress Honesty Hard Work Depends Return Quiet Fairs Instruments Curiosity Loyalty Tolerance Inauguration Inaugural Fair Play

Author:Barack Obama

“Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.”

Men Grows Wise Return Moon Adversity Branches Pondering Ponder This

Author:Bhartrhari

“No man-made law ever, no matter whether derived from the past or projected onto a distant, unforeseeable future, can or should ever be empowered to claim that it is greater than the Natural Law from which it stems and to which it must inevitably return in the eternal rhythm of creation and decline of all things natural.”

Men Should Made Matter Past Law Natural Greater Creation Return Eternal All Things Claims Rhythm Decline Stem Empowered Natural Law

Book:Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy

Source: Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy

“The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.”

Knows Doe Light Natural Common Return Habit Reflection Critical Intellect Common Sense Not Perfect Natural Light Critical Reflection

Book:An EPZ Introduction to Philosophy

Source: An EPZ Introduction to Philosophy

“I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.”

“Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.”

Ifs Wells Seems Perfect Progress Source Return Harmony Titles Tone Dominant Cadence

Author:Jean-Philippe Rameau

“We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.”

Men Long Sleep Animal Principles Ready Return Essentials Remains Defense Awake Beast Realising Dominant Recognise Civilisation Savagery Sounder

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

“An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.”

“Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.”

“More than anything I want to be able to go back to Cuba, to have a house to visit there, to know my roots. Then, at last, I could sing for my people.”

People Lasts Dies Return Castro Havana

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.”

Love Return

Book:Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

Source: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life

“I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.”

Would Be Political Nations Accepting Return India British Range Finest Asylums Footwear

Author:Julian Assange

“Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.”

Men Dies Left Darkness Return Void Without A Trace

Author:Leonid Andreyev

“We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand.”

Needs Hands Technology Military Policy Position Return Gains Program Strings Massive Communist Aggressive Capitalist Foreign Policy Agriculture Upper Hand

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.”

Hands Today Humanity Fronts Ready Return Crosses Silent Yesterday Golden Awe Silver Ashes Martyr Morrow Judas Fagots

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God is peaceful and sustained by confidence. You will find by experience how much more your progress will be aided by this simple, peaceful turning towards God, than by all your chagrin and spite at .the faults that exist in you.”

Soul Spirituality Simple Progress Pride Return Reflection Faults Bitter Peaceful Spite Defects Chagrin Disheartening

Author:Francois Fenelon

“A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.”

Ifs Doe Book Brother Return Demand Sells Stranger Foolish Copies Presentation Autographs

Author:Charles Lamb

“Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?”

Giving I Can Body Earth Dies Love You Return

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.”

Children Running Fall Found Lost Parent Sleep Cases Willing Broken Return Valuable Running Away Thieves Valuable Things Deep Sleep

Author:Margaret Mead

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