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«For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.»
Author: John Winthrop
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«To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgment, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.»
Author: Rachel Naomi Remen
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«Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
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amended, amending, withdraw, withdrawing, withdraws
«The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
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«Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Alcohol,
Drugs,
Lies,
Myths
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«I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
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«There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bring, bring back, builds, creates, eternally, Itself, longing, longings, new, past, withdrawing, withdraws
«To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there?s more reason to fear than to hope.»
«I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.»
«My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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