#abandon

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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.


Martin Van Buren


#agricultural #apart #attention #civilization #condition

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.


Whittaker Chambers


#call #case #cast #civilization #could

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.


Francisco de Goya


#arts #fantasy #impossible #marvels #monsters

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.


Susan Griffin


#after #am #anyone #away #been

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.


Bill Griffith


#art #because #being #comics #fine

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.


Bede Griffiths


#also #attachments #children #everything #father

That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.


Janis Karpinski


#conducting #did #equipped #guards #iraqi

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.


Alexandra Kosteniuk


#accompanying #army #career #chess #continue

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.


Margaret Thatcher


#beliefs #believes #consensus #me #objects

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.


Carrie P. Meek


#alienation #arrest #put #under #you