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• I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].

  John Kasich

  Opportunity, Thinking, Keys

  "Kasich Takes the Stage". Interview with Zeke J. Miller, time.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired.

  Patti Smith

  Light, Tree, Inspire

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• [On New York City:] Were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I should say that the land was the fairest in the world.

  Frances Trollope

  New York, America, Land

  Frances Trollope (2015). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.315, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.

  Betty Furness

  Football, Games, Chess

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• Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.

  Faith Sullivan

  Suicide, Home, People

  Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.296, Broadway Books

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• Lastly, the ashes left behind,
  May daily show to move the mind,
  That to ashes and dust return we must:
  Then think, and drink tobacco.

  George Wither

  Moving, Thinking, Dust

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• You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Done, Shells, Goes On

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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• Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.

  Alice Kahn

  Hair, Two, Expectations

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• Winter is ruthless and sometimes sullen and murderous. The wild winter North has gulped ten thousand summers down nor left a froth of sunshine on its lips.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Summer, Sunshine, Winter

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• Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.

  Frances Osborne

  Father, Liberty, Ordinary

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• Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Joy, Finding Happiness, Sooner Or Later

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2001.

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• Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?

  Bruno Schulz

  Air, Events, Too Late

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

  Jennifer Stone

  Religious, Jobs, Wings

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• Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!
  They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

  Fred Van Lente

  Journey, Solitude, Different

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• I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Government, Israel, Years

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• There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between

  Lech Walesa

  Legs, Should

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• The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.

  Tucker Carlson

  Groups, Demand, Modern

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• Performing isn't only about the acrobatics and the high notes: It's staying in the moment, connecting with the audience in an authentic way, and making yourself real to them through the music. I am more than the notes I hit, and that's how I try to approach my life. You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them.

  Idina Menzel

  Real, Trying, Done

  Idina Menzel @idinamenzel, twitter.com. January 1, 2015.

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• I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

  Brendan Coyle

  School, Thinking, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

  Mo Rocca

  Mean, Appreciate, Genius

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• Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Doors, Hands

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.66

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• This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
  That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
  For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
  Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Change, World

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.847

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• Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Character, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.305

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• Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn.
  [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]

  Samuel Johnson

  Authorship, Touched

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• I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

  Lulu

  Past, Want, Next

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