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A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed. — Dieter Appelt
I find that God by any name can be reduced to this sense of the eternal Presence. It defines being, and I see it as… — Elizabeth Clare Prophet
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. — John Thorn
Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of… — Thomas Chalmers
The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life.… — Saint Augustine
You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return. — Josemaria Escriva
On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to… — Lionel Terray
God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him. — Rumi
Your nature is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence... you are dancing only for a little while… — H. W. L. Poonja
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to… — Walter Benjamin
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are… — C.S. Lewis
Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. — Jay Sekulow
Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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… — Stephen Holden
Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to… — Benjamin Franklin
[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny… — George Orwell
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books,… — Ralph Nader
As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the… — Maurice Maeterlinck
A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness… — John Zerzan
I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand… — Ahmed Chalabi

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