Return Quotes
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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.
Misha Collins
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I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.
Etgar Keret
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I leave now to return. Travel far to be close.
Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
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They want me to continue, and I don't want to return to Atletico.
Gelson Martins
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Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.
Charles Dickens
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I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.
Mike Piazza
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childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.
Kate Green
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It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.
Sheila Heti
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It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.
Michael Moorcock
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Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.
Elvis Costello
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
Seneca the Younger
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Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. You get in return what you give.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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When the opportunities come, we may not want to buy another nickel asset, but if something comes cheap enough, we're all about return on equity.
Ivan Glasenberg
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns.
Catullus
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I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.
Everett Ruess
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Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.
Gerald Durrell
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I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.
Francis Chan
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
Seneca the Younger
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It is only the dead who do not return.
Alexandre Dumas
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My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.
Melissa Rivers
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If at anytime this life of ours grows feeble, or low, or lonely, I know no other remedy than to return to its Eternal Source, to God Himself; and through Him all the means of grace become again living and true; and through Him all His creatures become again near and dear and accessible.
Elizabeth Charles
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When writing code, it’s often the case that you end up computing a value that the calling function doesn’t currently need. Later, however, this value may be important when the code is called in a different situation. In this situation, you should obey the law of useful return: A procedure should return all the potentially useful information it computed.
Alexander Stepanov