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• A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.

  Carl Eckart

  Choices, Alternatives, Action

  Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

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• Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Joy, Finding Happiness, Sooner Or Later

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2001.

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• Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?

  Bruno Schulz

  Air, Events, Too Late

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Perfection, Feelings, Ordinary

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• I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.

  Helen Bevington

  Survivor, Left Behind, Feels

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• Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

  Jennifer Stone

  Religious, Jobs, Wings

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• Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!
  They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

  Fred Van Lente

  Journey, Solitude, Different

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• When all that's left of me is love,
  Give me away.

  Merrit Malloy

  Giving, Give Me

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• I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Government, Israel, Years

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• There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between

  Lech Walesa

  Legs, Should

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• I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.

  James D. Watson

  Wings, Evil, Want

  "James Watson: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. October 19, 2007.

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• Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards.
  Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow.
  At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens.
  Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spring, Heart, Eagles

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• My body parts are all I have left now that are only mine - the world owns everything else.

  Megan Fox

  World, Body, Mines

  "Megan Fox In ‘Bazaar’: I’ve Only Had Sex With Two Men", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2010.

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• At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

  David Harewood

  Teacher, School, Naughty

  "Portrait of the artist: David Harewood, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2010.

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• Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Grief, Air, Breathing

  "Exclusive: Actress Aunjanue Ellis and Director Russell Costanzo Discuss 'The Tested'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. April 29, 2011.

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• The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.

  Tucker Carlson

  Groups, Demand, Modern

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• Performing isn't only about the acrobatics and the high notes: It's staying in the moment, connecting with the audience in an authentic way, and making yourself real to them through the music. I am more than the notes I hit, and that's how I try to approach my life. You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

  Idina Menzel

  Real, Trying, Done

  Idina Menzel @idinamenzel, twitter.com. January 1, 2015.

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• Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.

  William Ramsay

  Progress, Trials, Hundred

  William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”

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• I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

  Brendan Coyle

  School, Thinking, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

  Mo Rocca

  Mean, Appreciate, Genius

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• People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

  George Eliot

  Writing, People, Thanks

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1859-1861”

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• I love walking into a closet and smelling lingering perfume, so I always spray my clothes. And at the end of the bottle, when the atomizer no longer reaches the tiny little dribble that is left, I unscrew the top and pour the remainder onto a t-shirt or dress.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Clothes, Dresses, Bottles

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• Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Doors, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.66

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• This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
  That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
  For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
  Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Change, World

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.847

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• Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Taken, Names, Consistency

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “Three Books of Offices ; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.273

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