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  • Carol Shields Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Dylan Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
    Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Barney Frank Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
    Popolo dItalia (14 July 1920) The Artificer and the Material, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro, p. 326
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Abba Eban Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Campbell Brown Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Richard Nixon Let each of us ask, not just what will government do for me, but what I can do for myself.
    Speech 2e inaugural (1973)
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Don Henley Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.
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  • Bhagat Singh Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Barack Obama Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Antonio Villaraigosa Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
    Antonio Villaraigosa
    American politician (1953 - )
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  • Anne Seward Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Ben Bernanke Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve System. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein Let me listen to myself and not to them.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Mark Twain Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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