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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. — Joseph McCabe
Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather… — Laozi
To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way. — Laozi
It is also a victory to know when to retreat. — Erno Paasilinna
Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under. — Harry Bridges
Happy couples make it a habbit to refocus. Because it's quite normal to be distracted. So they talk. They get away for a while. They… — Bo Sanchez
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. — Lee H. Hamilton
For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life… — Lewis Hyde
Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them… — David Abram
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips. — Taiye Selasi
If economic catastrophe does come, will it be a time that draws Christians together to share every resource we have, or will it drive us… — Randy Alcorn
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. — Fridtjof Nansen
The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into… — Evelyn Underhill
For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live… — B R Ambedkar
As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to… — Unknown Author
We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude. — Michel de Montaigne
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the… — Khalil Gibran
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks. — Ian Hamilton Finlay
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. — Tracy K. Smith
Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb!… — Henry Vaughan
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead.… — A. E. Housman
Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a step… — Takuan Soho
I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty… — Mark Burnett

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