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• The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Wool, Clue

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.296

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• There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lin'" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.

  Malcolm X

  House, Ems, Fields

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• Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Running, House, Should

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.

  Maria Montessori

  Baby, Children, Mean

  Maria Montessori (2014). “Montessori's Own Handbook”, p.62, Montessori Helper

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• Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.

  George Eliot

  Forever, Soul, Vision

  George Eliot (1869). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.49

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• No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

  Felix Dennis

  Glorious, Persons

  "'Drunks talk trash, don't they?'". Interview with William Leith, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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• When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

  Felix Dennis

  Home, Singers, Young

  "This much I know: Felix Dennis". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

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• However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.

  Matthew Arnold

  England, Newspapers, Persons

  Matthew Arnold (1912). “Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold”

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• O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!

  Matthew Arnold

  Strong, Soul, Vain

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• The wealthy have nothing left except money.

  George Ade

  Wealth, Wealthy

  George Ade (1904). “True Bills”

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• Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Night, Thinking, Faults

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• Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Firsts, May, Rich

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• There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

  Charles Peguy

  "Le mystère des saints innocents". Book by Charles Peguy, 1912.

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• The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Real, War

  Al-Ahram Weekly interview, 2001.

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• I decided to be a filmmaker between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse. Before I left for the summer of 1977, my advisor told me I really had to declare a major when I came back, because I'd used all my electives in my first two years. I went back to New York and I couldn't find a job. There were none to be had. And that previous Christmas someone gave me a Super-8 camera, so I just started to shoot stuff.

  Spike Lee

  Summer, Jobs, New York

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• Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.

  Georg Brandes

  Christian, Brother, Hatred

  "An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche". Essay by Georg Brandes (1889), as translated in "Friedrich Nietzsche" by A.G. Chater (p. 32), 1914.

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• We look to the left and to the right And we need help but nobody's in sight Where is the man that we all need Tell him he's to come and rescue me.

  Ken Livingstone

  Men, Sight, Needs

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• There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

  Ken Livingstone

  Needs, London, Desperate

  Socialist Organiser, March 1979.

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• My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.

  Shinzo Abe

  Hands, Historical, Experts

  The Washington Post Translated Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

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• There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Environmental, Body, Action

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, America, People

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 53, 1973.

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• The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish to act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible. In this confession lies the lasting truth of empiricism.

  William James

  Lying, Data, Wish

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1978). “Essays in Philosophy”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.

  Mark Twain

  Jobs, Indulge In, Ignorant

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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• England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

  George Orwell

  Country, Horse, Kings

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

  Russell Baker

  Honesty, Cities, Watergate

  Russell Baker (2014). “So This is Depravity”, p.107, Diversion Books

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