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No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism.
Speech to the Society of Professional Journalists, September 11, 2004 -
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
Doctor Zhivago -
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
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Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
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Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
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There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.
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