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The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back?

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.

Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.

The more fully we give our energy, the more it returns to us.

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.

...he who goes down to the grave does not return.

To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

Everything you are seeking is seeking you in return. Therefore, everything you want is already yours. So, you don't have to get anything. It is simply a matter of becoming more aware of what you already possess.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.

Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

Pardon the deserter; he is weak and will return to the lesson later on.