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• They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

  Thomas Davis

  Lying, Heart, Land

  1845 The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

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• [On her work in "Keep Your Powder Dry"] I didn't want to do it, but they said if I did it they would give me Undercurrent with Robert Taylor. Then they gave Undercurrent to Katharine Hepburn, so I left MGM.

  Laraine Day

  Giving, Dry, Want

  "Laraine Day" by Tom Vallance, www.independent.co.uk. November 13, 2007.

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• The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.

  Eric Rucker Eddison

  Past, Years, Memorial

  "A Fish Dinner in Memison". Book by Eric Rucker Eddison, 1941.

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• It is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing...

  Gudrun Ensslin

  Wings, Lefties, Ass

  "A Terrorist Call for 'Building a Red Army'". germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. June 5, 1970.

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• After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.

  Jo Grimond

  Country, Ideas, Listening

  The Sunday Times, September 19, 1976.

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• With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

  Max Horkheimer

  Philosophical, Thinking, Ego

  Max Horkheimer (1970). “Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung”

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• Yesterday the Soros -funded far left group Media Matters made a big issue of Pat Robertson's idiotic statement that the US should assassinate Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Today Robertson's comment is all over mainstream media. Are we supposed to think it's news that Robertson has a few screws loose?

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Thinking, Media, Yesterday

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• Virtually, Finnish woods are stripped so bare, so sold out and first and foremost, so long way off from genuine diverse natural forest, that the resources of language will not permit excessive words. Finnish forest economy has been compared to the ravaging of rain forests. Nevertheless, the noteworthy difference is that there is a half or two thirds left from rain forests, but from Finnish forests there is left - excluding arctic Lapland - 0,6 per cent.

  Pentti Linkola

  Rain, Two, Differences

  "The Forest Covering Must Be Restored In Finland". Essay by Pentti Linkola, 1995.

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• Design is too important to be left to designers.

  Raymond Loewy

  Design, Important, Designer

  "Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantage". Book by Adam Richardson, p. 184, February 8, 2010.

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• Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.

  Ilana Mercer

  Fighting, Gay, Blood

  "Beware of Liberals in Libertarian Drag". www.wnd.com. November 7, 2013.

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• In a free society, the “vision thing” is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a “visionary” bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government [...] the poorer and less free the people.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, People, Vision

  "His Rhetoric, Our Reality". original.antiwar.com. January 26, 2005.

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• I speculate that the genesis of the chicken-joke lies in some situation such as the one illustrated above, but over time the original context of the joke was lost, which left the chicken sadly decontextualized.

  Ryan North

  Lying, Lost, Chickens

  "Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?". www.insaneabode.com.

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• I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today.

  Martha Raye

  Beautiful, Country, Father

  "Take It from the Big Mouth: The Life of Martha Raye" by Jane Maddern Pittrone, (p. 220), April 8, 1999.

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• In our national discourse and in pursuing our national agenda, we must never leave anyone behind. We must reach out to the many who may have been disaffected and left confused by political games, deceit and showmanship. The people first must transcend every level of society.

  Najib Razak

  Confused, Games, People

  "Quotable quotes from Najib". New Srtaits Times, July 11, 2009.

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• The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Confusion, Understanding, Today

  "Quantum gravity". Book by Carlo Rovelli, 2004.

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• My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

  Herbert Schiller

  Driving, Ignored, Economy

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the art of living better than we are able to when an easy conscience, largely due to the unshaken faith of the time, left a marging of spiritual energy with which to enjoy life.

  Flora Thompson

  Spiritual, Art, Enjoy Life

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. May Chapter, 1986.

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• And here come the Left Brothers - Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson - barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid.

  Jason Whitlock

  Brother, Self, Common Sense

  "Keep Rush Limbaugh Out of the NFL". Fox Sports, October 13, 2009.

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• The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a private business enterprise for purposes of limiting personal liability, issuing stock, filing financial reports and paying taxes. Other forms include partnerships and sole proprietorships. Are they less evil? You buy your groceries from corporations, your cars, newspapers, cellphones, clothing and exercise equipment. Your parents and children work for corporations. Are they evil?

  Mike Rosen

  Children, Exercise, Evil

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• If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

  Mary Oliver

  Wise, Fighting, Love Is

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.68, Penguin

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• Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

  M. L. Stedman

  Past, Years, White

  M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Inspirational, Adversity, Soul

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• Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Home, Ambition

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.74

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• Messi does not need his right foot, though. He only uses the left and he's still the best in the world! Imagine if he also used his right foot... Then we would have serious problems!

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Feet, Messi, Doe

  "Ibrahimovic: 'Messi Is All Talent, While Ronaldo Is a Product of Much Training'" by Mark Doyle, www.goal.com. April 02, 2012.

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• The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.

  Irwin Shaw

  Stories, Literature, Lasts

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