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• Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Buddhism, Suffering

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• It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.

  Margaret Cho

  Family, Elephants, White

  Margaret Cho (2006). “I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

  Ronan Farrow

  Errors, Government, Office

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• The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.

  Starhawk

  Nature, Healing, Environment

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• That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.

  Josephine Tey

  Grief, Together, Warning

  JOSEPHINE TEY (1952). “The Singing Sands”

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• the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  War, Drinking, Years

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• I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Cousin, Mountain, Dying

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• There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Degrees, Sin

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• The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Rights, Law

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• We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.

  J. G. Holland

  Fall, Men, Temptation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 577, 1895.

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• Entre le ro"  le de sauveur et celui de complice du bourreau,j'aper c° ois tout au plus l'incommode emploi de victime. Between the role of saviour and that of butcher's accomplice, all I see left for you is the unsavoury role of victim.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Roles, Victim, Butchers

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• The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.

  Johannes Grenzfurthner

  Successful, Technology, Political

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• Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.

  Joseph Pisani

  New York, Cities, Expectations

  "Aeschbacher". Talk-Show, Swiss Television SF1, April 4, 2008.

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• I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  New York, Missing, Really Sad

  The New Yorker, September 9, 2002.

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• Children of Men is a solemn, haunting picture, but it's also a thrilling one, partly because of the sheer bravado with which it's made. It left me feeling more fortified than drained. [Director Alfonso] Cuarón, the most openhearted of directors, prefers to give rather than take away.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Children, Men, Giving

  "'Children of Men'". www.salon.com. December 25, 2006.

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• Once I appealed to distinguish words "gay" and "homosexual"... "Gayship" is a political homosexualism, a sort of left-wing ideology based on a bias against traditional lifestyle... Homosexualism is a sexual preference.

  Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz

  Gay, Wings, Political

  "Niech Homo Bedzie Homo". Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz's blog (translated), August 31, 2007.

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• Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!

  Javad Alizadeh

  Self, Political, Solitude

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• It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

  Owen Feltham

  God, Distance, Men

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• When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.

  Anna Thomas

  Believe, Food, Home

  Anna Thomas (2014). “The Vegetarian Epicure: 262 Recipes”, p.52, Vintage

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• wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Jobs, Believe, Reality

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• Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

  Joyce Johnson

  Girl, Nice, Home

  Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.86, Penguin

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• I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?

  Elana Dykewomon

  Strong, Mean, Home

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• Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?

  Mary Cantwell

  Strong, Hangover, Dark

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• If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

  Vera Caspary

  Dream, Men, Would Be

  Laura ch. 2 (1943)

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• Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Children, Tree, Fruit

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.72, Random House

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