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What the privileged do with what is left, how to make alive what will one day be yours?

When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are and what they do, they will discover suppressed Nietzschean premises. And consequently it is possible to predict with confidence that in the apparently quite unlikely contexts of bureaucratically managed modern societies there will periodically emerge social movements informed by just that kind of prophetic irrationalism of which Nietzsche's thought is the ancestor. Indeed just because and insofar as contemporary Marxism is Weberian in substance we can expect prophetic irrationalisms of the left as well as of the Right.

When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him.

When you're full and done with your meal, you can leave the table but clean up your mess before you walk away.

Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day? Where were you when I was silent with God in prandial pray? Where were you when I recited love poems as I lay? Where were you?

- Why you? - (...) I’m the best. - Modest of you. - I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

Would anyone notice if I just... left

YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.

You are not just white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not just black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.

You are not what you left behind.

You are not white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.

You left me the kind of broken that fears fixing.

You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

According to liberals, I'm not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: 'Game On.'

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived

After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.

All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.

All these new methods of how to build the church has left me confused.

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

A lot of unions are doing the same thing on the left that the NRA is doing on the right.

Also, I would cry at the words 'I miss you' after I left my family

A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Always listen to your heart, because even though its on your left side, its always right.

Amarillio, just turn to the left and 500 yards down

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?

And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.

And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.

Anger and humour are like the left and right arm. They complement each other.

Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.