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• Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Civilization, Records

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• You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.

  Guido Molinari

  Ideas, Space, Brain

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• When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?

  Leonard Shlain

  Reading, Book, Meditation

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• I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations.

  Leonard Shlain

  Taken, Two, Rights

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• When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.

  Danny Masterson

  Keys, Car, Parent

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible for one power to pervade the extreme parts of the U.S. so as to carry equal justice to them.

  George Mason

  Government, Justice, May

  "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.

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• One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.

  Yishan Wong

  Years, People, Choices

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• I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I’ve begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb.

  Roger Angell

  Couple, Pain, Past

  "This Old Man" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. February 17 & 24, 2014.

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• Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.

  Kenny Smith

  Basketball, Stars, Team

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• The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about note taking. It's about receiving and processing the world in a more complete and insightful way. It's a software upgrade for your brain. For those who've been shamed into thinking that drawing is either beyond them or beneath them, this book offers a whole new way of mastering the daily onslaught of information and turning it into raw material for discovery. (For those of us who've done this all our lives, the book provides a beautifully conceived and lovingly illustrated treat, and a great gift for our left-brained friends.)

  Stefan G. Bucher

  Book, Thinking, Drawing

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• Monopathy, or over-specialisation, eventually retreats into defending what one has learnt rather than making new connections. The initial spurt of learning gives out, and the expert is left, like an animal, merely defending his territory.

  Robert Twigger

  Animal, Giving, Connections

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• My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Father, Years, Icons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have seen how patients with arthritis, crippled for years, have left their crutches and beds and walked.at the biological clinics (Europe). After a few days or weeks of simple and harmless treatments, the pain from which they suffered for years disappeared and their joints became mobile and flexible again.

  Paavo Airola

  Pain, Simple, Years

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• Food and clothes sustain
  Body and life;
  I advise you to learn
  Being as is.
  When it's time,
  I move my hermitage and go,
  And there's nothing
  To be left behind.

  Layman Pang

  Moving, Clothes, Body

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• I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

  Lucinda Riley

  Past, Littles, Filling

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• I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.

  Lady Gaga

  Sadness, Greatness, Light

  "Lady Gaga On Love and Lies". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left.

  Chris Murray

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

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• Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.

  Peter Heller

  Dog, Hurt, Pain

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• Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

  Brigid Lowry

  Towns, Twenties, Miles

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• The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Truth Is, Hunts, Ifs

  Jessica Buchanan, Hannah Luce, Katherine Preston, Reyna Grande, Shirley MacLaine (2013). “The Lives of Others: Discover the Hidden Lives of Some of Our Favorite Atria Authors”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.

  Kin Hubbard

  Honest, Folks, Stills

  "Short Furrows". Book by Kin Hubbard, 1911.

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• Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.

  George Eliot

  Forever, Soul, Vision

  George Eliot (1869). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.49

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• Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Running, House, Should

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Law, Study

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.86, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Children, Years, Heaven

  Bertolt Brecht (1971). “Collected Plays: The life of Galileo. The trial of Lucullus. Mother Courage and her children”

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