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  • Bob Filner We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Lord George Byron We loathe what none are left to share: I even bliss 't were woe alone to bear.
    Source: The Giaour (1813) 19, 5
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Arthur Capper We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Beck We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Arthur Blank We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Billy Ray Cyrus Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
    Billy Ray Cyrus
    American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Brendan Behan What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
    Source: The Complete Plays
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Oscar Levant What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Tryon Edwards What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • E. M. Cioran What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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  • Hilaire Belloc When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Cass Sunstein When government programs aren't working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while those on the Right want to scrap them altogether. It is better to ask whether the problem is complexity and poor design. We can solve those problems - sometimes without spending a penny.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ben Chaplin When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from.
    Ben Chaplin
    English actor, director and writer (1969 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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