Refuge Quotes
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I think we will open a portion of the Alaskan wildlife refuge (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) to drilling, ... And we absolutely must address the need for additional refining capacity.
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The garden is the place I go for refuge and shelter, not the house. In the house are duties and annoyances, servants to exhort and admonish, furniture, and meals; but out there blessings crowd round me at every step -- it is there that I am sorry for the unkindness in me, for those selfish thoughts that are so much worse than they feel; it is there that all my sins and silliness are forgiven, there that I feel protected and at home, and every flower and weed is a friend and every tree a lover. When I have been vexed I run to them for comfort, and when I have been angry without just cause, it is there I find absolution. Did ever a woman have so many friends? And always the same, always ready to welcome me and fill me with cheerful thoughts. Happy children of a common Father, why should I, their own sister, be less content and joyous than they?
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge.
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
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The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
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I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
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Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
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Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.
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Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.
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What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.
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Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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I do not believe in that word Fate. It is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
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Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.
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Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
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There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
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Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
