Quotes with withdrawal

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• A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

  Maya Angelou
  African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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• Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.

  Bill Shuster
  American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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• Our reason for withdrawal is simple. We are party to too many regional trading organisations. The sum effect of this means that our membership is extremely costly to sustain and we must rationalise our participation in such ventures.

  Reason for withdrawal from COMESA, September 1999

  Benjamin Mkapa
  Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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• Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

  André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• organisations
• participation
• importantly
• rationalise
• membership
• extremely

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