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"What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." »Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, "Economy"
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"I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation." »Bertrand Russell
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men." »Zora Neale Hurston
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"It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armour-proof against painful emotions; nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer." »Von Humboldt
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"I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY resignation. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER." »Groucho Marx
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