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• The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected. Of 435 members of the House of Representatives, only four incumbents lost to nonincumbents of the other party. In all, 96 percent of incumbents were re-elected. (It was only 90 percent in 1992 and 1982 after the previous reapportionments.)

  Dick Morris

  Party, House, Four

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• The world may be known Without leaving the house.

  Laozi

  House, World, May

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• What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged some sort of fecal matter.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Thinking, Chocolate, Brain

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• We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.

  Seth Godin

  Connections, Entering, Economy

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• ... human free will implies God's prior decision not to tamper with the metaphysical base of that free will. It also implies man's ability to reject the persuasion God uses to influence that free will while leaving its metaphysical base intact! Persuasion, not compulsion, is what even He must rely upon! And persuasion, by its very definition, must be resistible!

  Don Richardson

  Men, Rely Upon, Decision

  Don Richardson (1984). “Eternity in Their Hearts”, Baker Publishing Group

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• We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.

  Jane Powell

  Needs, Want, Pay

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• The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet...

  Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

  Missing, Rays, Doe

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• Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Sadness, Soul, Mind

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• Don't aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in, Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier and it will come naturally.

  Mother Teresa

  Believe, Want, Aim

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• As much as it pleases God to bless you, there will be moments when everything you try goes up in smoke. There will be moments when the one you counted on most walks away and leaves you groping through blinding tears and wailing questions of why. Plans and goals can be circumvented by the most disappointing of times, leaving you learning the art of patience and the acceptance of a denied request.

  T. D. Jakes

  Art, Acceptance, Goal

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• I think I live inside the plane! I never have time to unpack; I'm always leaving in two days again. I travel a lot, and at the beginning it was really fun. The first time I went inside a plane, I was 15 years old and I had so much fun. I like to travel all over the world and learn [about] new cultures. Not that many people have the opportunity to do that.

  Adriana Lima

  Fun, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Home, Space, Flying

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• I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects.

  Eve Ensler

  Men, Rights, Talking

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.

  Eric Idle

  Jobs, War, Lovely

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.

  Eric Idle

  Writing, Python, Years

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python'". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.

  Matthew Lewis

  Acting, Potters, Considering

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Home, Boys, Complaining

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

  Cecily McMillan

  New York, Cities, House

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at adapting to new environments in relatively short periods of time. The ancestors of Homo sapiens started leaving Africa over one million years ago, moving from warm, tropical climates into the freezing wilderness of Europe and the desert ecosystems of the Middle East.

  Annalee Newitz

  Moving, Years, Europe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Leaving my first agent was both my best business decision and my worst business decision. It depends on how I want to look at my career because of opportunities that may have come had I stayed with him and because of the opportunities that did come because I had to fight harder for roles.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Fighting, Opportunity, Careers

  Carmen Ejogo ‘Sparkle’ Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

  Luke Temple

  Song, Writing, Trying

  Interview with James Rickman, therumpus.net. June 30, 2014.

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• To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Couple, Character, Personality

  "New Again: Lisa Kudrow". Interview with Sara Switzer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• My husband and I are pretty good at leaving money alone until we need it for what we've saved it for.

  Michelle Singletary

  Husband, Needs, Saved

  "Color of Money Live". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 21, 2016.

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• I couldn't have articulated this process at the time; I just sort of did it instinctually. But now when I talk about this with my students all the time, it's one of the first things I address in memoir classes - that you have to put it all in because you're writing your way into the ending of your own story. Even if you think you know what the story is, you don't until you write it. If you start leaving things out you could leave out vital organs and not know it.

  Melissa Febos

  Writing, Thinking, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mainly, life experiences with my family or travelling as a young kid, I feel like I had a different lifestyle than a lot of people leaving on tour when I was fourteen and stuff, so I pull from that.

  Zac Farro

  Kids, People, Different

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