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• In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Christmas, Kings, Holiday

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.107, Random House

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• To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at the same point, knowing from grim experience, that the demons awaiting you have each to be grappled with in turn, no single one of them left unthrown, before you can win through to the peace that is utter exhaustion.

  Henry Handel Richardson

  Sleep, Winning, Night

  Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1930). “The fortunes of Richard Mahony: comprising Australia Felix, The way home, Ultima Thule”

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• Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Baby, Echoes, Arrogance

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• we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Happiness, Mixing, Ingredients

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• Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.

  Edna Lewis

  Family, Food, Home

  Edna Lewis (2012). “The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.18, Knopf

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• The only good thing we can do, the only goodness we can be sure of, is our own goodness as individuals and the good that we can individually do. As groups we often do evil that good may come and very often the good does not come and all that is left is the evil we have pointlessly done.

  Marghanita Laski

  Evil, Individuality, Groups

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• If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Self, Persons, Ifs

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• No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.

  Irene Thomas

  Water, Matter, Bottom

  Irene Thomas (1979). “The Bandsman's Daughter: An Autobiography”

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• People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

  John Corey Whaley

  People

  John Corey Whaley (2012). “Where Things Come Back”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!

  Estelle

  Notebook, Song, Crazy

  "How Estelle headed to the US and scored her first No. 1". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 5, 2008.

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• What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.

  Timothy Gowers

  Independent, Principles, Doe

  Timothy Gowers (2010). “Mathematics”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Following Christ, Grace

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• I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'

  Phil Robertson

  Godly, Wings, Holiness

  "'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson talks values, family in new book". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2013.

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• I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.

  Joss Whedon

  Mom, Country, Running

  "Joss Whedon on Feminism, Avengers Leaks, and Marvel’s Big Slate". Interview with Kara Warner, www.vulture.com. November 4, 2014.

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• People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hands, People, Missing

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• It is mercy that our lives are not left for us to plan, but that our Father chooses for us; else might we sometimes turn away from our best blessings, and put from us the choicest loveliest gifts of his providence.

  Susannah Spurgeon

  Father, Blessing, Might

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Susannah Spurgeon, Joseph Harrald “C.H. Spurgeon's Autobiography: 1854-1860”

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• One of the great things about a free market is that it's inherently and indefatigably Darwinistic. Left to its own devices, a free market will eventually weed out the stupid from both 'ends' of the food chain otherwise described as supply and demand. As money is liberated from the hands of the stupid, those who would sell products or services to the stupid will eventually lose their share of the marketplace. Devoid of any 'benevolent' interference from government, the process is gloriously relentless, and cannot help but yield a successively smarter class of participants.

  Edward Britton

  Weed, Stupid, Government

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• Once you educate yourself, you're left with choices.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Choices, Educate

  "The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia". Interview with Jacob Gordon, www.treehugger.com. February 7, 2008.

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• The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment.

  Rand Paul

  Community, President, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.

  George W. Bush

  Children, School, Return

  "President Bush in Georgia". President Bush's speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

  George Jones

  Years, People, Mind

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

  Al Sharpton

  Healing, People, Rooms

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A lot of unions are doing the same thing on the left that the NRA is doing on the right.

  Eric Bolling

  Unions, Nra

  "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.

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• And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Thinking, Gigs, Concerts

  Source: www.nola.com

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• Tom Hanks is a huge superstar. And people tell me he's a very nice guy, not arrogant, not an entitlement guy. But very quietly, Mr. Hanks has become a left-wing power player in Hollywood.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Nice, Player, Wings

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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