Esther Perel
Psychotherapist, Author
"It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy."
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Abandoned
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Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all."
Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin."
S.J. Watson
Author
"I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed."
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"I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive."
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"Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling."
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"A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned."
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"If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?"
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"Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned."
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"A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival."
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"Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her."
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"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned."
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"A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?"
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"Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality."
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"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives."
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"The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes."
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"The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun."
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"I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else."
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"While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences."
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"He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally."
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"And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate."
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"To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved."
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"Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection, and has been for some years now. Sales haven't ever stopped, so to talk about rediscovering him would suggest that he isn't read anymore and that's not true."
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