Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

quote by Adam Smith
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This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

quote by Neil Young
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I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too.

quote by Anthony Weiner
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The 9th President

I met Nicksan, Aba and Ezema on the way yesterday;
But their faces were full of fear! And, i did not know why?
Maybe, it was because of the 9th President.

The 9th President resigned yesterday and,
The people are in shock!
But watch your lips and never be offended;
Because life is full of surprises and,
We have to accept hiw views for resigning.

Life is like the Breezy Spines and,
I am here to take care of my lover;
Because she is confused as well and,
She can't understand why the President resigned.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

quote by Eduard Shevardnadze
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The Look of Love's Enigma

The look of love, the look thou give
Within its rays love shall live
The aureole of angels scintillates
In thy look, as love abdicates
her crown, the one thy took
When love looked at thee
as love I see. The look of thee
from the look of me…

poem by Kevin Michael Murphy
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Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

quote by Gustav Heinemann
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Cherry blossom rise

Cherry blossom rise
Snowdrops announce the Spring's birth
Winter slow resigns

haiku by Marius Alexandru (February 2020)
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They Thought I Was a Thief Too

They thought I was a thief too
Get those handcuffs jiffily
Let us brace him
How I quaked!

In terror we pray
Gnash our teeth
Our knees knock,
Our hearts resigned to fate.

It was my voice and identification
That affected my release
I was simply lucky
One of them knew me.

In terror we pray
Gnash our teeth
Our knees knock,
Our hearts resigned to fate.

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poem by Samuel Munachim
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They Thought I Was A Thief Too

They thought I was a thief too
Get those handcuffs jiffily
Let us brace him
How I quaked!

In terror we pray
Gnash our teeth
Our knees knock,
Our hearts resigned to fate.

It was my voice and identification
That affected my release
I was simply lucky
One of them knew me.

In terror we pray
Gnash our teeth
Our knees knock,
Our hearts resigned to fate.

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poem by Samuel Nze
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Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

quote by Erma Bombeck
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Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

quote by Joseph Conrad
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Unlost Existence

When an embryo was growing in a petri dish
I said this is it my adieu
for I am now ready for a new journey of self denial
a skull in my lap
after the abdication of ancient fear
the eyes of buttercups poked with hot iron rods
a hoe breaking the neck of a bowed man
to humanize an ugly beast
my fragile hands make a cup to collect the light
of a fading sun to pour on the stillness
of the dream’s dark roaring
that’s how a pinned butterfly becomes
resigned for capitulation

poem by Satish Verma
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The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

quote by Anais Nin
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

quote by W. Somerset Maugham
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The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

quote by Kahlil Gibran
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

quote by Archibald MacLeish
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Me from Myself—to banish

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Me from Myself—to banish—
Had I Art—
Impregnable my Fortress
Unto All Heart—

But since Myself—assault Me—
How have I peace
Except by subjugating
Consciousness?

And since We're mutual Monarch
How this be
Except by Abdication—
Me—of Me?

poem by Emily Dickinson
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For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

quote by Gustav Stresemann
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

quote by Ignazio Silone
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