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It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion. Paul Nurse

Time Religion School Secondary Secondary School Abandoned My Time

My father took my mother, me, and my brother from Sicily to New York. He got us one-way tickets but booked himself a return flight. He dumped us with my mother's parents, who had just arrived from Italy, and abandoned us. That was 1986. I didn't see or speak to him for another 12 years. That's cruel. Paulie Malignaggi

Me Speak Mother Father Parents Took Booked Abandoned Brother See One-Way Had Cruel He New Tickets Him Return Himself Another Got Arrived Years Italy Dumped York Just New York Us Flight Who Sicily

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. Peter Dinklage

Station Abandoned Never Lived Railroad

The mistake is to think that clever technology can solve everything, but it can't solve our relationship with nature, which is where I think it's gone wrong in that we have somehow abandoned our proper connection with nature. Prince Charles

Nature Relationship Technology Mistake Clever Gone Think Our Everything Abandoned Solve Somehow Proper Wrong Where Which Connection

Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still. Reuven Rivlin

Me Worldview Guides Abandoned Also Still Came

Mainstream media has been abandoned by many, for ideological reasons mostly, and brands need to directly engage with the end-user of information and offer opportunities for consumer- and employee-generated content. Richard Edelman

Opportunities Abandoned Has-Been Directly Consumer Mainstream Mainstream Media Mostly Ideological Content Been Offer Brands Information Engage Reasons Many Media Need

In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned. In India alone, millions of government-funded latrines have become goat-sheds. Some had been built near kitchens, a taboo in Indian households. Rose George

Alone World Become Enough Abandoned India Indian Some Taboo Kitchens Had Simply Developing Developing World Households Built Been Provided Governments Storage Spaces Again Turned Across Reasonable Villages Near Millions

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice. Said Sayrafiezadeh

Me Man Father Unknown Immensely Abandoned No Choice Something Had Exciting Noble Adventure Just Choice Who Imagine

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety. Scott Stossel

Anxiety Sometimes Distract Before Band Stage Seven Collapsing Abandoned Members Would Nerves Simon Onstage Resumed Performing She Concert Years Pittsburgh After Ask Her

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature. Seth Grahame-Smith

Library Worth Congress Guess Abandoned Unpublished Wrote Terrible Another Got Were Decade Gradually Short Screenplays Stories After Short Stories Literature Little Less Manuscript Many Novels Awful

Love can be put off, never abandoned. Sextus Propertius

Love Abandoned Never Put Off

'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you. Soccer Mommy

You Waiting Abandoned Hopelessness Someone Clean Still

I thought it was hilarious when 'Brace for Impact' was released, and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song is dripping with pedal steel. If anything, that tells me I'm making progress. Sturgill Simpson

We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes. Teresa Medeiros

Life Culture Light Fall Lost Own Live Programming Beneath Our Latest Guiding Abandoned Casualty Just Soaps Axes Beloved

Could I anticipate the enmity of those for whom I encountered such opposition? If they had been willing, I should have gained the victory. But the head faints when it is abandoned by the other members. If they had been wise they would have seen that in attacking me they were attacking their own privileges and serving princes to their own servitude. Thomas Becket

Me Wise Victory Seen Own Other Those Abandoned Members Willing Would Attacking Could Had Head Princes Were Been Opposition Encountered Anticipate Privileges Gained Should Whom Serving Servitude Enmity

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments. Tom Glazer

Sad Depression Car Job Lost Abandoned Jobs Had Since Got Been Up Very Owners Payments Garage Keep Night Philadelphia

I soon abandoned the question of who Kurban Said or Essad Bey was for the more problematic one - who was Lev Nussimbaum? Tom Reiss

Abandoned More Soon Said Question Problematic Who

I've never abandoned the novel. V. S. Naipaul

Abandoned Never Novel

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