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The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ↗

— Henry Lawson

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I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

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There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you. ↗

— Jack Layton

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I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

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All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#conceptual #conceptual art #directed #feminist #includes

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years. ↗

— Nicholas Lea

#another #been #besides #five #had

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#anything #cannot #described #equal #figure

The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today. ↗

— William P. Leahy

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Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#arranged #basis #bride #described #marriages

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed. ↗

— Richard Leakey

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