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I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

    Author: Adam Osborne
   

We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!

    Author: Adam Savage
   

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

    Author: Adriana Lima
   

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

    Author: Al Roker
   

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

    Author: Alan Greenspan
   

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

    Author: Aldo Leopold
   

It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.

    Author: Alice Barrett
   

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

    Author: Alphonso Jackson
   

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

    Author: Ambrose Bierce
   

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

    Author: Ambrose Bierce
   

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

    Author: Amelia Barr
   

I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.

    Author: Amelie Mauresmo
   

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

    Author: Andrew Card
   

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

    Author: Andrew Jackson
   

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

    Author: Anne Tyler
   

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

    Author: Barbara Mikulski
   

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

    Author: Barbara Mikulski
   

When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.

    Author: Barbara Mikulski
   

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

    Author: Barbara Tuchman
   

Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

    Author: Barry Gibb
   

Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.

    Author: Barry Gibb
   

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

    Author: Bennie Thompson
   

Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

    Author: Bill Frist
   

I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

    Author: Bill Lipinski
   

President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.

    Author: Bill Shuster
   

Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

    Author: Blanche Lincoln
   

Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

    Author: Bob Taft
   

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.

    Author: Bobby Darin
   

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

    Author: Brad Henry
   

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

    Author: Brandon Lee
   

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

    Author: Brigitte Bardot
   

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

    Author: Buffalo Bill
   

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

    Author: Camille Paglia
   

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

    Author: Candice Bergen
   

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

    Author: Carl Sandburg
   

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

    Author: Carol P. Christ
   

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

    Author: Cathy Rigby
   

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

    Author: Chaka Fattah
   

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

    Author: Charles Lamb
   

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

    Author: Charles Stewart Parnell
   

I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.

    Author: Charlie Watts
   

I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.

    Author: Chris Chocola
   

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

    Author: Christian Nestell Bovee
   

Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

    Author: Christopher Dodd
   

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

    Author: Chuck Palahniuk
   

I thought about that the other day after I went to the grocery store and had to sign fifteen autographs before leaving. On one hand, it's just so flattering. On the other hand, sometimes it would be nice to get the bread and leave, you know?

    Author: Clay Aiken
   

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

    Author: Constance Baker Motley
   

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

    Author: Corrine Brown
   

I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America.

    Author: Curt Flood
   

The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

    Author: Dag Hammarskjold
   

More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

    Author: Dan Lipinski
   

It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate.

    Author: David Caruso
   

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

    Author: David K. Shipler
   

I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine.

    Author: David Kay
   

At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

    Author: Dennis Hastert
   

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

    Author: Diane Watson
   

I told them if were going to do it were going to do it right, I'm not leaving 'til it's done. My wife, child and I slept in the studio. We cut these raw.

    Author: Dick Dale
   

It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

    Author: Dick Durbin
   

Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.

    Author: Doc Hastings
   

However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.

    Author: Dorothy Denning
   

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

    Author: Dorothy Denning
   

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

    Author: Doug Coupland
   

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

    Author: Douglas Hurd
   

I'm leaving. I'm doing five episodes this year, then I'll be headed out.

    Author: Dule Hill
   

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.

    Author: Ed Pastor
   

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

    Author: Edmund Waller
   

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

    Author: Edward G. Rendell
   

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

    Author: Edward Irving
   

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

    Author: Elbert Hubbard
   

After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

    Author: Elisabeth Shue
   

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

    Author: Elizabeth Blackwell
   

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.

    Author: Ellen Goodman
   

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.

    Author: Elliott Smith
   

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

    Author: Emily Bronte
   

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

    Author: Eric Braeden
    Topics: Children

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.

    Author: Erica Jong
   

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

    Author: Eriq La Salle
   

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

    Author: Ernest Borgnine
   

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

    Author: Fiona Apple
   

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

    Author: Francesca Annis
   

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

    Author: Francis Parkman
   

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

    Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld
   

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

    Author: Frank McCourt
   

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

    Author: George Eliot
   

The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line.

    Author: George Mercer Dawson
   

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

    Author: George Sanders
   

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

    Author: George Sanders
   

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.

    Author: George Washington Carver
   

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

    Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
   

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

    Author: Groucho Marx
   

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

    Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar
   

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

    Author: Harold Brodkey
   

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

    Author: Harold Kushner
   

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

    Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
   

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

    Author: Harry Browne
   

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

    Author: Helen Hayes
   

After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.

    Author: Henry L. Stimson
   

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

    Author: Henry L. Stimson
   

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

    Author: Herb Kohl
   

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

    Author: Herman Cain
   

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