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Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.
Safely welcoming those seeking refuge into our country is the right thing to do.
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Europe has been a place of refuge. Why should it stop with black and brown bodies?
Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.
I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
Our nation is built on a proud history of providing refuge for the poor, persecuted, and disenfranchised.
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.
Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.
My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian.
There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
History has not looked kindly on us when we've prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.