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• The Lamanites [Native Americans], now a down-trodden people, are a remnant of the house of Israel. The curse of God has followed them as it has done the Jews, though the Jews have not been darkened in their skin as have the Lamanites.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Native American, Israel, People

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• I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Thinking, Soul

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• Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

  Aldo Leopold

  Character, Yield, Wilderness

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.161, UNM Press

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• On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."

  Vivien Leigh

  Grandchildren, Night, Atlanta

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• It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have been accomplished by measures equally advantageous to the Indians. What the native savages become when surrounded by a dense population and by mixing with the whites may be seen in the miserable remnants of a few Eastern tribes, deprived of political and civil rights, forbidden to make contracts, and subjected to guardians, dragging out a wretched existence, without excitement, without hope, and almost without thought.

  Andrew Jackson

  Rights, Political, Unions

  United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson), Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual Messages, Veto Messages, Proclamation, & C”, p.80

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• I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Loss, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It's hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract.

  Noam Chomsky

  Xenophobia, Europe, Growth

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Secret, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In The Godfather, for instance, they say they won't deal drugs because they have a code of behaviour. He is the last remnants of that. So playing someone like that, who is also in pain with his kidney stone, means you're beginning to find a dimension of the guy who is king and all show and the private guy who is in pain.

  David Suchet

  Kings, Pain, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Tomorrow awaits to become yesterday. Remnant shall only be a smile, a frown or a tear! Let's store what we may!

  Deeba

  Yesterday, Tears, May

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• I know there's no heaven. I know it all turns to nothingness. But I fear there will be some remnant of me left within that void. Left conscious by some random fluke. Something that will scream out for this. That one speck of my soul will still exist and be left trapped and wanting. For you. For the light. For anything.

  Drew Magary

  Light, Heaven, Soul

  Drew Magary (2011). “The Postmortal: A Novel”, p.342, Penguin

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• I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

  Heidi Julavits

  Ebay, Lamps, Too Much

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• We've seen the Republican Party come apart at the seam with Donald Trump taking the remnants over the cliff. We've seen the basic foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party inside of Hillary's campaign.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Moving, Foundation

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I don't like to go out to clubs, because I find myself seeing remnants of drugs in the bathroom.

  Demi Lovato

  Drug, Clubs, Bathroom

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Tears, Depth, Slavery

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• In deep sleep, even though one does not exist as an externally or internally conscious ego, one can report a good nights sleep because a very subtle ego remnant remains, permitting the experience of limitless and bliss.

  James R. Swartz

  Good Night, Sleep, Self

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• I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off Bermuda, great walls and things of that sort. This seems to indicate that there were races and cultures that went before us. And to me, that's an unsettling idea.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in the world. The last remnant of the commons is the environment, which the indigenous people are still trying to preserve and we sophisticated rich people are trying to destroy.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Trying, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

  Lord Byron

  Three, Earth, Hundred

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention mission of the UN. Similarly, the present permanent five are out of touch with geopolitical realities, and constitute a remnant of a West-centric world order, casting a shadow of illegitimacy across the activities of the most important organ of global policymaking in the UN System.

  Richard A. Falk

  War, Reality, Order

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still.

  Patrick Bergin

  World, Wildlife, Stills

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• First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.

  Frank Sartor

  Running, Assessment, Land

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.

  Jeb Bush

  Army, Support, Effort

  "Jeb calls Obama comment linking climate change to terrorism 'perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard'". www.dailymail.co.uk. November 25, 2015.

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• My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Summer, Mother, Memories

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Lying, Election, Despise

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