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• In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Want, Handsome

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 5, 1948.

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• Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Light, Expectations, Waiting

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.637

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• Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Specks, Whole

  1812 The Absentee, ch.11.

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• I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.

  Van Morrison

  Men, Glamour, Realms

  Van Morrison (2014). “Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics”, p.107, Faber & Faber

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• Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

  Amy Lee

  Beautiful, Negative, Outlets

  "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs". VH1 News, September 18, 2006.

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• Let me tell you, people go on and on about what a great idea electricity was, but I'm going to put toilet paper right next to the wheel and say those are the best ideas anyone's ever had. Scoff at it if you will, but try living for two millennia without it and then we'll talk.

  Kevin Hearne

  Ideas, Two, People

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.293, Del Rey

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• Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

  Wendell Berry

  World, Speech, Mourn

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.23, Counterpoint

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• How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that "no" means "yes" if you know how to spot it? Let me tell you something. In this modern world, that is simply not tolerated. People aren't even gonna try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said it was a cliche. It used to be part of the advice young boys were given.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Boys, People

  "Rush Limbaugh strikes back at DCCC". www.politico.com. September 17, 2014.

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• I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have that, while she does all the real-life stuff that counts — making sure the kids are going to school and all that. I married a saint — well, a saint who curses.

  Ray Romano

  Real, School, Kids

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• Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace -- the many inquiries -- the fond regrets and thrilling hopes -- it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.

  George Henry Lewes

  Regret, Veils, Inquiry

  George Henry Lewes (1847). “Ranthorpe ...”, p.317

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• Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Color, Best Effort

  Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. March 05, 1877.

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• People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies.

  Jerry Lewis

  People, Eulogy, Want

  "Jerry Lewis talks about his love for Dean Martin". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2005.

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• My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.

  Channing Tatum

  Parent, Way, My Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

  Meryl Streep

  Different, Actors, Millions

  Source: collider.com

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• Do anything you wanna do—but from [the heart]. Music is a thing from the heart, from the soul, just like anything else you do, man. And you can be the best, you can be what you wanna be. That’s right! You can do what you wanna do. I believe—I’m a blues player. I never been a millionaire, but let me tell you something—I think I am. Cause I got this. I’ve got what it take. And I don’t care if you don’t believe me, man, but I know you do. Because this is what it’s all about. Anything you do, if you wanna do it and you love it, you rich. You a millionaire, man.

  Hubert Sumlin

  Believe, Heart, Player

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• As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.

  Amor Towles

  Feel Better, Use, Next

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• Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

  Garik Israelian

  Stars, Sun, Host

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• I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.

  Mika

  People, Cheesy, Way

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• Now let you and me buy wine today! Why say we have not the price? My horse spotted with five flowers, My fur-coat worth a thousand pieces of gold, These I will take out, and call my boy To barter them for sweet wine. And with you twain, let me forget The sorrow of ten thousand ages!

  Li Bai

  Sweet, Horse, Flower

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• Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Different, Wealth, Rich

  "The Rich Boy" (1926)

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• Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Military, War, Blessing

  "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha)". Book by Miguel de Cervantes (Part I, Book III, Chapter 4), 1612.

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• When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Father, Wealth

  2000 The. Power Book.

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• Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. I loved light ever, light in eye and brain No tapers mirrored in long palace floors, Nor dedicated depths of silent aisles, But just the common dusty wind-blown day That roofs earth's millions.

  Edith Wharton

  Eye, Light, Wind

  Edith Wharton (2002). “Artemis to Actaeon and More: Selected Verse”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

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• Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

  Walter Scott

  Horse, Men, Rooms

  'The Doom of Devorgoil' (1830) act 2, sc. 2 'Bonny Dundee'.

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• The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles."

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Country, People, Facts

  "Important Work of Uncle Sam's Lawyers". American Bar Association Journal, p. 238, April 1931.

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