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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease. (Karel Čapek)
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the worlds need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need this life is hell. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song I'mboundaway And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died. View quote
Robert Frost
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations. View quote
Margaret Mead
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. View quote
Gary Becker
I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them 800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference. View quote
Emo Philips
The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans. View quote
Jessica Lynch
How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too. View quote
William Cowper
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. View quote
William Shenstone
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. (George Orwell)
Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty. View quote
John Muir
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. View quote
Malcolm X
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return. View quote
T. H. White
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' View quote
Christopher Hitchens
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners. View quote
Peter Ustinov
I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return. View quote
Frida Kahlo
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. (Ovid)
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. View quote
Colum McCann
We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant. View quote
Colum McCann
If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. View quote
Masaru Emoto