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• I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Summer, Writing, Thinking

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• When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

  Alex Van Halen

  Planets, Music Is

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• If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Fall, Past, Shadow

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.1206, Penguin

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• Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention.

  Alice Bailey

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

  Alice A. Bailey, Djwhal Khul (1955). “Discipleship in the New Age Vol II”, p.62, Lucis Publishing Companies

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• When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player.

  John Petrucci

  Strong, Mistake, Player

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• The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

  Tony Abbott

  Real, Believe, People

  "Town of Beaufort changed Tony Abbott's view on climate change" by Stuart Rintoul, www.theaustralian.com.au. December 12, 2009.

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• If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Children, School, Law

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• You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

  Alexander McQueen

  Needs, Theatrics

  "Boy done good" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2005.

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• Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  Taken, Light, Doors

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• When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the power of God in saving those who believe. For the cross is equally an act, and therefore a demonstration, of God’s justice, love, wisdom and power. The cross assures us that this God is the reality within, behind and beyond the universe.

  John Stott

  Believe, Reality, Justice Of God

  John Stott, Alister E. McGrath (2006). “The Cross of Christ”, p.274, InterVarsity Press

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• I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.

  Jeff Gordon

  Mean, Thinking, Race

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• My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Father, Vision, Looks

  "Earnhardt Jr - NNCS teleconference". www.motorsport.com. October 4, 2006.

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• Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

  Adrian Beltre

  Trying, Balls, Kind

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• It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Country, Wall, Different

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• Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Letting Go, Wind, Hands

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• . . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a long dark brown form fairly streaking across the sky. We could see that it was a German machine, and when it got above and behind our middle machine, it dived on it for all the world like a huge hawk on a hapless sparrow.

  James McCudden

  Dark, Sky, Long

  James McCudden (2009). “Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps”, p.85, Casemate / Greenhill

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• True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age nor too far before it. It is up with its age, and ahead of it only just so far as to be able to lead its march. It cannot slumber, for activity is a necessity of its existence. It is no reservoir, but a fountain.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Heart, Greatness, Age

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• Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.

  Loukas Tsoukalis

  Country, Spain, Portugal

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• The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.

  Lev Grossman

  Country, Book, House

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• The breeze and the dew make tranquil the clear dawn;
  Behind the curtain there is one who alone is up betimes.
  The orioles sing and the flowers smile -
  Whose then, after all, is the Spring?

  Li Shangyin

  Spring, Flower, Dawn

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• I’ve got four nipples. I think I must have been a twin, but the one other went away and left its nipples behind.

  Harry Styles

  Thinking, Four, Nipples

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• Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Fall, Adventure, Past

  Algernon Blackwood (2011). “Four Weird Tales”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Philosophy, Men, Taxes

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.98, BookBaby

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• Writing is fifty years behind painting.

  Brion Gysin

  Writing, Years, Fifty

  Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.131, Wesleyan University Press

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• What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Memories, Remember, Forget

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