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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one… — Ayn Rand
I shall never surrender or retreat. — William B. Travis
Retreat is a response to the call of the heart-that call which beckons us toward reality, to the truth of our being, to that which… — Adyashanti
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of… — Barry Goldwater
God loves us. He is good, He is our Father, and He expects us to pray, and to trust and be believing, and not give… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow. — Tony Blair
When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, "How you… — Sakyong Mipham
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your… — James Wolfe
A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating… — Bill W. Clayton
[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust. — Charley Reese
The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail. — George W. Bush
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted… — Omar Khayyam
Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting… — Douglas Alexander
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural… — Northrop Frye
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as… — John Paul Stevens
How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in… — Mark Helprin
The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological… — Carrie P Snow
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to… — Christopher Lasch
For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which… — Henry David Thoreau
I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story. — Gwyneth Paltrow
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world,… — Abraham Cowley
How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which… — L. Ron Hubbard
What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of… — George Edward Woodberry
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false… — George Orwell
What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an awareness of the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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