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• So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Smell, Leaving, Remember

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Summer, Teacher, Teaching

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• All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Reason, Jacob

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• Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

  Edwin Newman

  Simple, Speech, Language

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Book, Mirrors, Dust

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• The thing about The Departed, the x-factor that people can't quite put their finger on, is that it deals clearly with class and accent all these things that are fundamental to Boston, but previously anomalous or even prohibited in demotic American films.

  William Monahan

  Boston, Class, People

  Source: collider.com

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• A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Doe, Venture Capitalists, Fool

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• I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power.

  Henry Rollins

  Hero, Unique, Hands

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• Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Letting Go, Spirit, Celebration

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• I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?

  Og Mandino

  Opportunity, Men, Purpose

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.59, Bantam

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• US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong Kong to cancel my passport in order to trap me in Russia, because it's the most effective attack they have against me, given the political climate in the United States.

  Edward Snowden

  Russia, Order, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Missing, Mind, Gold

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• People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in the absence of cameramen acts might not be committed. Others felt that the mob was beyond appeal to mercy. They stayed and won Pulitzer Prizes. Were they right?

  Harold Evans

  People, Cameras, Television

  Harold Evans (1978). “Editing and Design: Pictures on a page”

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• Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

  Robert Blair

  Pain, Remembrance, Joy

  Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.9

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• He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

  Jane Austen

  Rain, Interesting, Midst

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.46, Ageless Reads

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• A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

  Saint Augustine

  Religious, Eye, Men

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• The Sabbath day has become a day of pleasure, a day of boisterous conduct, a day in which the worship of God has departed, and the worship of pleasure has taken its place. I am sorry to say that many of the Latter-day Saints are guilty of this. We should repent.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Sorry, Taken, Saint

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1973). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• After all, the living book of God's creation lies open for all to see; it points constantly to the divine calling for which we were placed in nature. Nature is a continual admonition to us, for nowhere has God's creation departed so far from its origin and primeval purpose as in the human race.

  Eberhard Arnold

  Lying, Book, Race

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• [It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.

  James A. Garfield

  Dream, Eye, Men

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• Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fall, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

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• Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Taken, Hands

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• She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

  Susan Wiggs

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Susan Wiggs (2016). “Susan Wiggs The Calhoun Chronicles Books 1-3: The Charm School\The Horsemaster's Daughter\Halfway to Heaven”, p.70, MIRA

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• Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

  Pliny the Elder

  Mean, Vanity, Promise

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1964). “The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny”

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• So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,— The after-echo of departed years,— And touches all the soul to tears.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Memories, Heart, Past

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you get to control things, if only on the page. You get to run the show. You can right wrongs, bring departed loved ones back to life, even take vengeance on God, if that's your thing.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Running, Despair, Fiction

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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