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Your Quotes for 20 October 2005 - Return

General Douglas MacArthur, having been driven from the Philippines by the Japanese earlier in the war, fulfilled his promise to return on this day in 1944. He waded ashore side-by-side with Philippine President Sergio Osmeña at Leyte. In case his promised return wasn't enough, Big Mac promptly returned to the landing craft and waded ashore again so the newsreel cameras could record the event.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
     - B.C. Forbes, 1880 - 1954

Don't ever slam a door; you might want to go back.
     - Don Herold, 1889 - 1966

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
     - Joachim du Bellay

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
     - Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
     - Robertson Davies

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
     - Bill Cosby

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