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  • People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
  • One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
  • Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
  • My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
  • I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
  • It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
  • Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
  • Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
  • My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
  • Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
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  • O. Henry You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Bernard Meltzer Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Voltaire I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Walt Disney Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sydney Smith Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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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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  • Joseph Addison I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William S. Burroughs Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Hannah Arendt No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • George Orwell So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Roland Barthes There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Bill Bryson To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Moore 'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Anna Louise Strong A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Bernard Berenson A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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