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“Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I know to be void of a even a single drop of Hebrew blood - without any cultural or historical ties to the Holy Land and in fact simple converts to a base form of Judaism. Clinton eulogized Rabinowitz (Yitzhak Rabin) as a son of David and a son of Solomon. You must know that this man was a Khazar of Turko- Mongolian lineage, and can in no way represent a 'return' since his southern Russian ancestors never made it down to Palestine until 1948.”

“My life is about my journey, and your life is about your journey. You are completely unqualified to draw my map, and I am completely unqualified to draw yours. I hope you'll let me know all about the path you've found, so that I may judge it for myself against my own path, and have the freedom to choose between the two. But please don't try and drag me from my path on to yours, and I will be sure to return the favor.”

Knows Life Trying May Two Life Is Found My Own Path Journey Judging Return Please Draws Let Me Favors Maps Drag My Journey Freedom To Choose Unqualified

Author:Derek R. Audette

“The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.”

Men Art States Found Individual Levels Secret Creation Return Art Is Artistic Participation Effectiveness Mystique Artistic Creation

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.”

Source: The Age of Miracles

“Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.”

Ifs Today Found Hours Technology Study Minutes Return Office Projects Tasks Originals Average Heavy Productivity Employee Distraction Distracted October Tolls Interruptions

Author:David Rock

“Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.”

Feels Mind Firsts Hands Found Easy Sound Return Spring Ill Command Wheels Flaws Crowns Clay Vessel Hollow Potters Leaks Mould Pottery

Book:Poetical Works: With a Memoir

Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir

“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.”

“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

“The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position.”

“New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.”

Men Found Water Millions Impossible New York Return Horror Window Rose Wave Caged

Book:Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

“Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.”

Ifs Men World Found Wish Study Return Reader Miracle Delight Profession Occasions

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.”

Long Found Born Return Tickets Found You

Book:Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld

Source: Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld

“Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood--namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.”

Firsts Humans Different Ends Reason Light Certain Order Found Understanding Principles Clear Movement Return Judgment Understood Discovery Possession Analysis Reasoning Inquiry Acquisition

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.”

Age Religion Found Strange Return Instance Worms Mixtures Mistress Corpses Tombs Jerusalem Pilgrimage Gallantry

Author:Horace Walpole

“Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.”

Ifs Doe Home Certain Found Hours Sun Taken Ready Return Amount Scene Method Following Fixed Rising Makers Fatigue Monotony Working Women

Author:Anna Brackett

“I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.”

Mind Found Loss Pleasure Heard Danger Return Direct Brave Terror Hopeless Scream Mentor Distress Vessel Extravagant Navigation Wailing Voluptuous Presence Of Mind

Author:Francois Fenelon

“One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.”

Way Writing I Can Whole Stories Feelings Certain Song Found Enjoy Can Do My Own Novel One Thing Return Radio Time Travel Eerie Rereading

Author:Philip K. Dick

“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

“We know that from the GI Bill after the Second World War, where Congress found that for every dollar we put in as taxpayers into free higher education for returning GIs, we got back $7 for every dollar invested. An enormous return on our money in public benefits and improved revenue.”

Knows World War Found Return Higher Benefits Bills Dollars Congress Enormous War Of The Worlds Revenue Taxpayers Second World War Higher Education Gis

Author:Jill Stein

“After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.”

Song Found Jesus Left Return Becoming Drug Protest Songwriting Bob Dylan Hurricanes Becoming Famous

Author:Bob Dylan

“I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.”

Ifs Want Feels Wells Humor Today Funny Found Lost Taught Return Walking Lessons Hundred Dollars I Realized Fifty Fifth Avenues Wallets Fifth Avenue

Author:Emo Philips

“Don't think about what you've left behind. If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.”

Ifs Thinking Made Said Matter Moments Light Found Left Stars Behinds Boys Return Pure Desert Sand Left Behind Explosions Spoil Alchemist Alchemist Book

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character”

Way Feels Persons Character Found Return Cat Excellent Gauges

Book:House of Night Series

Source: House of Night Series

“When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.”

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