Quotes with relinquish

  • Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

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  • Peace Pilgrim Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Jean Cocteau If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Cornelius Nepos So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.
    Cornelius Nepos
    Roman writer (110 - 25)
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  • Bronislaw Malinowski The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
    Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)
    Bronislaw Malinowski
    Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942)
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  • Seneca The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Naomi Wolf To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
    Naomi Wolf
    American author, journalist, feminist, and former political advisor (1962 - )
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  • Adrien Brody You'd be surprised how difficult it is to relinquish a cell phone.
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