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«A reporter is a man who has renounced everything in life but the world, the flesh, and the Devil»
«It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-»
Author: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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«A person who has subdued the senses and completely renounced [the fruits of] all works, dwells happily in the City of Nine Gates, neither performing nor directing action.»
«No one becomes a Karma-yogi who has not renounced the selfish motive behind an action.»
«I have renounced my desires; I have renounced them. I have renounced them; meeting the Guru, I have renounced them.»
Author: Atharva Veda
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«In His Sanctuary, there is no fear or sorrow. Without Him, nothing at all can be done. I have renounced clever tricks, power and intellectual corruption.»
«My mind has entered their Sanctuary. I have renounced my pride in my own strength, and the darkness of emotional attachment.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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«It all worked out - I was saved, and the egotism within my heart was subdued. The evil energies have been made to serve me, since I placed my faith in the True Guru. I have renounced my useless schemes, by the Grace of the True, Carefree Lord.»
«It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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