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“The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.”

Men Moving Left Steps Taken He Man Capture Squares Files Another Man Pawns

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess

“It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.”

Years Humans Has Beens Self Facts Values Left Views Taken Determination Dignity Independence Individuality British Attributes Self Determination Human Dignity British Politics

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Faces Left Gone Taken Died Familiar Departed Familiar Faces

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.

“If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.”

Ifs Needs Would Be Left Poor Rich Taken Minimalism Minimalist

Author:Saint Basil

“Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.”

Way Doe Art Whole Pain Together Left Difficult Consciousness Taken Expression Shapes Unique Sentences Territory Propositions Left Alone Left Out Together Again Incomprehension

Author:Jacques Barzun

“I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations.”

Way Two Would Be Values Culture Left Language Taken Rights Manifest Principal Womens Rights Alphabet Adopting Reception Abomination

Author:Leonard Shlain

“Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.”

Philosophy Left Path Taken Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.”

Matter Government Purpose Individual Left Sides Religious Prayer Taken Atheism Citizens Exercise Conscience Function Mere Positive Atheism Instance Sole Secular Acknowledgment

Author:Barbara Brandriff Crabb

“People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.”

People Want Mean Left Understanding Taken Havens Understood Treated Granted Destructive Taken For Granted

Book:BRING ME A UNICORN

Source: BRING ME A UNICORN

“Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.”

Reason Names Left Virtue Taken Uniforms Consistency

Book:Three Books of Offices ; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers

Source: Three Books of Offices ; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers

“Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.”

Left Taken Morality Evidence Posts Miscellaneous Wrongdoing Watergate

Book:Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties

Source: Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties

“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.”

People Knows Kind Has Beens I Can Happens Left Felt Taken Wind Slavery Angry Backgrounds Oppression Know Me Could Have Been

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.”

Years House Energy Left White Taken Car Six Hundred Complexes Gas White House Efficiency Emissions Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Energy Efficiency

Author:William J. Clinton

“I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.”

Want Children Left Change Taken Husband Fairs Weather My Children My Husband

Author:Madame de La Fayette

“What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.”

May Soul Lost Left Loss Taken Greatness Waste Fortune

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.”

Should Ideas Soul Left Speak Black Taken Influence Dangerous Revolution Sake Obvious Favors Scales Smallest Symptoms Objections Respectability Placid

Book:Art & ardor: essays

Source: Art & ardor: essays

“Only two things I know about Albuquerque - Bugs Bunny should've taken a left turn there. And give me a hundred tries, I'll never be able spell it.”

Knows Giving Should Trying Two Able Turns Left Taken Hundred Give Me Two Things Spells Bugs Bunnies Albuquerque

Author:Jimmy McGill

“I marvel now that it was not obvious how inextricable suffering and fear are. It was not until fear left that I noticed, slowly, how it seemed to have taken suffering with it. It took a while to figure out that (for me, anyhow) suffering is mostly caused by fear-not by the circumstances themselves, but by my response to them.”

Suffering Left Fear Taken Figures Circumstances Response Obvious Fear Not

Book:When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening

Source: When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening

“It seemed that most women, because they had been caught, gave up on the movement and were just trying to pass the time until they could be released. Men in prison struggled to maintain their pride, including their manhood, because that is all they had left after everything had been taken away.”

Men Trying Left Taken Movement Pride Prison Including Caught Manhood Gave Up

Author:Assata Shakur