"Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of… — Julian Huxley
• The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every… — Lloyd deMause
• The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist… — Francis of Assisi
• The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead… — Bertrand Russell
• There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is… — Ludwig von Mises
• To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition… — Thomas Kuhn
• If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing… — R. D. Laing
• The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and… — Sigmund Freud
• How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or… — Walter Inglis Anderson
• From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective… — Ban Ki-moon
• Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the… — Patrick Henry
• I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character. — Tilda Swinton

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