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• The Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half.

  Harry Houdini

  Moon, Half, Body

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• Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

  Madeleine Albright

  Needs, World, Today

  "Albright Sees an Ambitious World Mission for U.S". Harvard University commencement speech, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 1997.

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• In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.

  Manly Hall

  Men, Body, Arms

  Manly P. Hall (2003). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages”, p.249, Penguin

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• If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

  Jim Carrey

  Dream, Giving Up, Starving

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• I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

  Paddy Considine

  People, Trying, Gone

  "Paddy Considine: 'I'm trying to make sense of a lot of things'" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.

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• For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class

  Hans Koning

  Kings, War, Class

  Hans Koning (1992). “Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth”, p.118, NYU Press

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• I would put myself towards left of center.

  Yvette Clarke

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• We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

  Fanny Howe

  Lonely, Sky, Joy

  Fanny Howe (2000). “Indivisible”, Semiotext

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• At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people do not acquire their weapons because of what they will do, but rather to gratify the "Christmas morning joy" that we largely left behind in our childhood.

  Jeff Cooper

  Morning, Long, People

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• I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies. I don't remember what was said that day. All I know is that when I left, everything had changed. I'll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, “It's true. It's completely true.” The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.

  Kirsten Powers

  Joy, Mind, Doubt

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• I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Smell, Rose

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1242, Wordsworth Editions

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• If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hate, Men, Energy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.24, 谷月社

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• The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
  [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Evil, Dens, Dies

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• Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Shining, Might

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe”, p.293

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• The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

  Jonathan Swift

  Green, Trunks, Intemperance

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics

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• Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

  Annie Dillard

  Hands, Painting, Chapters

  Annie Dillard (2009). “The Writing Life”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Plato, Greatness, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.87

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• Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Morning, Water, Sunrise

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.62

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• For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

  A. A. Milne

  Dream, People, Fifty

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• God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Wrath, Intuition

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• Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Ought, Dies

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions of the matter--and hide things lest they should be lost, where neither the owner nor anybody else can find them. This is a sort of magpie faculty. If anything is left where you want it, it is called litter. There is a pedantry in housewifery, as well as in the gravest concerns. Abraham Tucker complained that whenever his maid servant had been in his library, he could not see comfortably to work again for several days.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Order, Library

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• It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Evil, Flavor, World

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• Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

  Honore de Balzac

  Catholic, Sublime, Church

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• How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.

  Rose Macaulay

  Selfish, Compassion, Giving

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