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• Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.

  Alvan Macauley

  Truth, Character, Giving

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• Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

  Deepak Chopra

  Friendship, Intimacy, Mask

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• Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

  John Landy

  Running, Inspirational Life, Thinking

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• In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Taken, Men

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

  Tim McGraw

  Fall, Heart, Gone

  Song: You Turn Me On, Album: Everywhere, 1997

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• I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.

  Tyson Gay

  "American 100-meter record holder Tyson Gay tests positive for banned substance", www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2013.

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• Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

  Langston Hughes

  Sea, Life Is, Bigs

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Big Sea: An Autobiography”, p.335, Hill and Wang

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• Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Broken Heart, Home, Winter

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• The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Gratitude, Attitude, Lying

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• Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.

  Wendy Doniger

  Spring, Past, Blood

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• ...Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television. If he ever dies and goes to heaven, it's going to be a big let down.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Men, Car

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.100, Crown Archetype

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• Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

  Chuck Yeager

  Real, Sky, Experience

  Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• I'm like a lion - I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry.
  I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Pain, Insecurity, Lions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

  David Brainerd

  Enemy, Battle, Missionary

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (2010). “The Diary of David Brainerd”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.

  Homer Hickam

  Country, Teacher, Parent

  Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.146, Dell

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• These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Dream, Fall

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• If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time. Joy, though, is something else. It’s not a choice, not a response to some result, it is a constant. Joy is “the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do,” no matter the outcome.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Choices, Joy, Feelings

  Matthew McConaughey's Commencement Address at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, time.com. May 17, 2015.

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• I have a lot of internalised tantrums. I secretly hope the worst and then I start planning my little speech for the beginning of it. Showers are the worst - all the time in the shower I'm planning the next time I'm going to lose it at someone, and then I never actually do. You're almost let down when people are nice.

  Jon Richardson

  Nice, People, Tantrums

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make the headlines. These are people who have felt that their sense - their grief, their sense of injustice has been compounded by a system that just doesn't work, that just doesn't listen to victims, that effectively disempowers them all too often.

  Nick Xenophon

  Grief, People, Justice

  "Legal Eagles Discuss Justice System". "Stateline" on ABC, May 13, 2005.

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• Women have an extraordinary ability to withdraw from the sexual relationship, to immunize themselves against it, in such a way that their men can be left feeling let down and insulted without having anything tangible to complain of.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Feelings, Complaining

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.66, Heinemann

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• I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.

  Scott Rudin

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  "Scott Rudin is on a roll" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

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• As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gratitude, Flower, Fall

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It's what you're doing now.

  Jack LaLanne

  People, Giving, Age

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• All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Pits, Sin

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