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" Abandoned homes are everyone's problem, afflicting communities all over the state. "

Eric Schneiderman

" Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes. "

Eric Schneiderman

" Afghanistan remains an opportunity to deal al Qaeda a vital strategic blow, especially since we have abandoned all operations - including counterterrorism operations - in Iraq. "

" Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out. "

" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "

" Art is never finished, only abandoned. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. "

" At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. "

Georges Jacques Danton

" Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels. "

" Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment. "

" Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. "

Phyllis Schlafly

" Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation. "

Martha Gellhorn

" Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. "

" I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.' "

" I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me. "

" I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously. "

Jonathan Lethem

" If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned. "

George Sutherland

" I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability. "

Sheldon Lee Glashow

" I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical. "

" I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day. "

" I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction. "

" I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. "

Jamaica Kincaid

" In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why. "

" In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties. "

Henry Charles Carey

" I never lived in an abandoned railroad station. "

" In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. "

" In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders. "

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

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

" It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters. "

Bryce Dallas Howard

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