It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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A poem is never finished only abandoned
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
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We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed
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A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.
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Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained.. Now everywhere is war.
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Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
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Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him
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Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity
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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
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The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money; .. And the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite
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Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally discredited and abandoned.. WAR! So that is prophecy, and everyone know that is truth. And it came out of the mouth of Rastafari.
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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The property is currently being used in a variety of ways, including commercial dog kennels, and abandoned horse barn and stable facility, as well as several residences.
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Operation and maintenance of the water and wastewater systems have essentially been abandoned.
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The situation is already grave, if not grotesque,.. And to facilitate this by making drinking facilities more widely available is close to lunacy. It simply means that our towns and city centers are abandoned every night to tribes of pugnacious, drunk, noisy, vomiting louts.
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Mrs. Williams agreed to take care of me when all the other teachers abandoned me.
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Well, we found a bunch of abandoned buildings and we are actually going to go ahead and try to retrieve some of these Ak-47s assault rifles that they have been using to shoot at helicopters and some of the people trying to get back into the city to get it back up and running.
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What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time.
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