"Be truly whole, and all things will return to you."
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"In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity."
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"Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason"
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"I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'."
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"Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return."
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"Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work."
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"what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools."
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"Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same."
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"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."
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"An investment in education always pays the highest returns."
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"I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return."
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"I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen."
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"The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine."
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"Returns decrease as motion increases."
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"O, call back yesterday, bid time return"
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"What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine."
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"Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return."
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"No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature."
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"The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him."
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"Love is no love which asks for a return."
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