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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

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It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

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It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

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If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

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It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

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Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

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We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

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People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

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A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

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Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.

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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

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In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

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The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

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We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

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Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

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I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any more. I left it behind. I detoxed!

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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

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In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

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I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

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Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

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If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

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I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

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Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

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I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.

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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

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I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

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Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.

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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

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There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

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I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.

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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

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When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.

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These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

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My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

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The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

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O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

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If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

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A smart girl leaves before she is left.

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Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

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Dr. Larry and Viki are the only original characters left on the show.

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It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

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I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

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No voters will be left behind.

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

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Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

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Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

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There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

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We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.

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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

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There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

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In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

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It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

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I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

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I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

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When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

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You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.

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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

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Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

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I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

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I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.

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I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.

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Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

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Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

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Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

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You can get really left of centre influences in mainstream pop. Michael Jackson and Prince are some of the most progressive artists ever if you actually dissect their songs there's some crazy stuff going on.

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One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

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When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

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I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

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