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  • Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
  • All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
  • I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
  • My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.
  • One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
  • Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
  • Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
  • To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
  • It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.
  • You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • G. Randolf Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
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  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Back water rising, coming in my windows and doors I leave with a prayer in my heart: back water won't rise no more
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  • Robert Greene Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
    The 48 Laws of Power
    Robert Greene
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Winston Churchill For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • A. A. Milne I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Voltaire The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
    Original: Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Walter Lippmann The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Windsor 'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • William Styron A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live several lives while reading it.
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  • Carly Fiorina A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Bill Engvall A lot of times you go to a concert, and when you leave, you don't know anything more about the act then when you got there.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Beryl Markham A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Scott A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
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  • Rob Cella A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
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  • Henrik Ibsen A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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