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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.»
«A genius is a man who can rewrap a new shirt and not have any pins left over.»
Author: Dino Levi | About: Genius | Keywords: left over, pins, shirt
«Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.»
«Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.»
Author: Langston Coleman | About: Luck | Keywords: left over, luck, percent
«Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else»
Author: Michael Vitale | About: Art | Keywords: after, art, defined, else, left, left over, over
«Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.»
«Television is a triumph of equipment over people and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart»
«Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone»
Author: John Ciardi | Keywords: gentility, left over
«A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active»
«It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.»