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• For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dream, Writing, Fiction

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Doctors, Law

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1415, Best Books on

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• I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Divorce, Home, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mom, Children, People

  Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

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• You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Ideas, Revolution, Force

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.59, Crown Forum

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• Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Rich, Mediums

  "Being Naked - Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway". Book by Alan Woods, 1996.

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• It was not coincidental that we chose what's left If the universe has a will I think we are part of it Tender and precious How many times have I searched for something Found and lost it Since then?

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Thinking, Lost, Found

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• The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.

  Ben Harper

  Pain, Lying, Long

  Song: Fool For A Lonesome Train, Album: Lifeline, 2007

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• We don't stop and realize that we are dealing with people - the far-left doesn't think we need a military to start with, they really don't. You've heard me say this before, they really believe if all countries would just stand in a circle and unilaterally disarm and hold hands then all threats would go away, they believe that. They would never say that but they do believe that.

  James Inhofe

  Country, Military, Believe

  "Inhofe Claims Obama and Liberals Hope to Disband the Military" by Brian Tashman, www.rightwingwatch.org. December 05, 2012.

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• The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Drawing, Brain, Tools

  "A Brain Comes Full Circle" by Neil Strauss, www.nytimes.com. March 29, 2000.

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• Rebellion against technology and civilization is real rebellion, a real attack on the values of the existing system. But the green anarchists, anarcho-primitivists, and so forth (The "GA Movement") have fallen under such heavy influence from the left that their rebellion against civilization has to great extent been neutralized. Instead of rebelling against the values of civilization, they have adopted many civilized values themselves and have constructed an imaginary picture of primitive societies that embodies these civilized values.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Real, Technology, Civilization

  "The Road to Revolution" by Theodore Kaczynski, 2008.

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• If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, Race, People

  "Style as Instrument, Style as Person" by Berel Lang, Critical Inquiry Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 715-739, Summer, 1978.

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• When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.

  Willie Nelson

  Hippie, Drinking, Beer

  "Willie Nelson: 'If We Made Marijuana Legal, We'd Save a Whole Lotta Money and Lives'" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed.

  Conor Oberst

  Bags, Peter, Bus

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• The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Gone, Elements, Matter

  Jyllands-Posten, June 25, 2007.

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• The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

  David Ricardo

  Fall, Wages, Capacity

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• Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that.

  Paul Ryan

  War, Tomorrow, Irishmen

  "Paul Ryan Mocks ‘War On Women’ At Private Fundraiser". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Father, Thinking, Law

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• Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage to convince himself that taxing America's Productive Class can restore it to prosperity. In point of fact, it's like screwing for chastity, guzzling alcohol for sobriety, or gorging to fight gluttony. It's like killing indiscriminately for peace - oops, Democrats, Republicans and their moral and spiritual ilk have devoutly believed that particular bit of perverse nonsense since at least the War of 1812.

  L. Neil Smith

  Spiritual, War, Fighting

  "A Little Austrian Flea". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 01, 2009.

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• Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores. Liberalism - Progressivism - all forms of left wing collectivism, are equally alien to the Founders' America and must be extirpated, root and branch, laughter and derision being the most effective weapons. Look at the way they have reduced Hillary Clinton to an insignificant greasy spot on the pages of history, turned Albert Gore into an object of merriment, and are accomplishing the same for Barry and Micky Obama.

  L. Neil Smith

  Laughter, Wings, Roots

  "Revenge of the Cookie Monster". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 31, 2010.

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• Today there really aren't that many Fundamentalists left; I don't know if you know that or not, but they are such a minority; there aren't that many Fundamentalists left in America. ... Now the word "fundamentalist" actually comes from a document in the 1920s called the Five Fundamentals of the Faith . And it is a very legalistic, narrow view of Christianity, and when I say there are very few fundamentalists, I mean in the sense that they are all actually called fundamentalist churches, and those would be quite small. There are no large ones.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Views, America

  "Myths of the Modern Megachurch". www.pewforum.org. May 23, 2005.

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• Hell is gone and heaven's here,there's nothing left for you to fear.

  Robbie Williams

  Heaven, Gone, Hell

  Twitter post from Jan 21, 2015

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• If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.

  Brock Yates

  Depressing, Mean, Winning

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• With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has to do the job. What I hate about these liberal, pseudo-left, beautiful soul academics is that they are doing what they are doing fully aware that somebody else will do the job for them.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Beautiful, Jobs, Hate

  "Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly" by Slavoj Žižek, p. 50, 2004.

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• There are only three kinds of people. LEADERS. Those who take charge, build, inspire, and create. FOLLOWERS. Those who support leaders and work to achieve mutually beneficial goals.... [and] DESTROYERS. Destroyers cannot find it within themselves to follow anyone, their hatred and insecurity is too pure to see strength in any OTHER being. The utterly lack the ability to inspire or create, so they do the only thing left to them -- they tear down all they come in contact with.

  Rick Remender

  Goal, People, Hatred

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