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• I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.

  Brad Ausmus

  Long, Guy, Left Handed

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• Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

  Donald Lambert

  Technology, Artist, Smell

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• I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

  Catherine Stock

  People, Small Villages, Gallery

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• Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?

  Ronald Dworkin

  Doe, Authority, Holes

  Ronald Dworkin (2013). “Taking Rights Seriously”, p.48, A&C Black

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• It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.

  Joan Robinson

  Next, Theory, Prognosis

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.227, Academic Press

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• I have not spoken in three years: not since I left boot camp. It has been three years of a senseless war, and though the reasons for it are clear, and though we will continue to fight until we are ordered to stop--and probably for a while after that--none of us can remember the hate that led us here. We are simply fighting to survive the war. It is a strange place to be at fifteen, bereft of hope and very nearly of your humanity. But that is where I am nonetheless.

  Chris Abani

  War, Hate, Fighting

  Chris Abani (2015). “Song For Night”, p.5, Saqi

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• I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.

  Chris Abani

  Mean, Political, Reason

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• Cats are like insects. They should be left outside to clean up the garbage.

  Michael Mewshaw

  Cat, Garbage, Clean

  Michael Mewshaw (2000). “PLAYING AWAY”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.

  Karle Wilson Baker

  Hair, Dust, Wings

  Karle Wilson Baker (1931). “Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)”

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• I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my way back to where I left off. I have my headphones on, I'm checking email, I look at Twitter and Tumblr, and drink a lot of coffee. I need a lot of distraction to work.

  Kelly Link

  Coffee, Past, House

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• The movie business was changing, I didn't want to turn 60 in the job. I picked 60 as an age where you are young enough to have a new life but not so young you can wait. And I had this incredible need: I had been so blessed in life and I wanted to give back. So I left Paramount with great joy, I have to say, and with great fondness for the memories I have in the movie business.

  Sherry Lansing

  Jobs, Memories, Blessed

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Rocks, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.

  Bob Hope

  Kings, Four, England

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• England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

  William Cowper

  Country, Mind, May

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.369

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• What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Memories, Peaceful

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.41

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• And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

  Alexander Pope

  Fate, Humans, Binding

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.164

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• But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

  Euripides

  Gone, Brightness, Woe

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• And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

  John Milton

  Song, Larks, Nests

  John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton”, p.72

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• When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

  Ellen Goodman

  Speech, Language, Ritual

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• The far right and the far left can be equally insane.

  John Avlon

  Insane

  "The Rise of Political Extremism and the Decline of Decency". Interview with Jessica Rettig, www.usnews.com. April 08, 2010.

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• You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.

  Michael Ende

  Missing, Feels

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• Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

  Wallace Stegner

  Long, Realizing, Born

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• In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

  Claude Monet

  Years, Painting, Achieve

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

  Jane Fonda

  New York, West Coast, Revolutionary

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

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