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Comes now a smiling New-Born Year To fill to-day with goodly cheer— An infant hale and lusty. Upon our door-sill he is left By Daddy… — John Kendrick Bangs
Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice… — Jill Bolte Taylor
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on… — Luc Sante
As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do… — Anthony Kiedis
The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes… — Harry S. Truman
It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For… — Walter Lippmann
There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything… — Judith Viorst
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his… — Mark Twain
The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because… — Plato
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches… — Thomas Jefferson
When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name… — Erma Bombeck
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left. — John Updike
The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so… — Chili Davis
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when… — Richard Lamm
When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left… — Gore Vidal
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it,… — Saul Bellow
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now… — Ingrid Newkirk
I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs… — Juliana Hatfield
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Some people swear there's no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night… — Claire Morgan

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