#abandon

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences. ↗

— Howard Gardner

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. ↗

— Adolf Loos

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The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

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Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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