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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
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Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
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My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.
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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
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The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.
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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
Of Agriculture.
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