Franz Kafka
Writer
"Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form."
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Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns."
Judith Butler
Philosopher, Gender Theorist
"We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!"
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"I don't think about returning to the streets, 'cause I don't have any plans to return to the streets. I'm at another level in my life. Returning to the street - I still be in my streets when I get time to, when it's necessary."
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"I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview."
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"The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in."
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"Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
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"When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself."
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"Give everything and look for no return."
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"When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency."
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"One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."
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"I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there."
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"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."
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"You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more."
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"And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust."
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"We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment."
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"There is no such thing as high returns without risk."
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"When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started."
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"Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return."
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"I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return."
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"What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future."
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"I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return."
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"We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return."
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