Quotes with left-handed

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  • Walter Benjamin These are days when no one should rely unduly on his ''competence.'' Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Laurence Binyen They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
    We shall remember them.
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Bret Harte They were left in the lurch For want of more wadding — He ran to the church — ... With his arms full of hymnbooks... Rang his voice, Put Watts into 'em — Boys, give 'em Watts.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anne Frank Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Bernard Goldberg This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
    Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Al Franken To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Tom Hopkins Today, you have 100% of your life left.
    Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • Bernard Crick Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 6, A Defence of Politics Against False Friends
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Confucius Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bertrand Russell War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Georges Clemenceau War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Bertrand Russell War isn't about who's right, it's about who's left
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
    La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Adam Grant We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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