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"What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it."
"That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return."
"A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return."
"God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return."
"Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns."
"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."
"Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom."
"Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return."
"It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came."
"Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again."
"No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend."
"The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production."
"One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return."
"I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring."
"In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?"
"Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours."
"Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return."
"The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return."
"Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground."
"I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return"
