"Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I……" — Susan Orlean

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• If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
• If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for… — Teresa of Avila
• The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation. — Abu Bakr
• When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon… — Javier Bardem
• If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of… — Gary Bauer
• More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance… — Gary Bauer
• Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the… — Simone de Beauvoir
• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to… — Napoleon Bonaparte
• The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system. — George W. Bush
• I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign… — David Byrne
• To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the… — Albert Camus

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