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It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.


Joan Van Ark


#coming #i #left #pilot #understood

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.


Karen Armstrong


#awful #book #convent #disgusted #felt

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.


Karen Armstrong


#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.


Matthew Arnold


#barbarians #distributes #into #itself #just

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.


W. H. Auden


#left #like #looks #out #rain

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.


Sherman Austin


#computers #done #downloading #drive #each

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.


Theodor Adorno


#complete #his #individual #left #live

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.


Rick Baker


#clear #death #died #end #happened

I left school on my 15th birthday.


David Bailey


#i #left #school

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.


Emily Greene Balch


#east #especially #europe #feudal #feudalism