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Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is usually weaker than on the other side; -- opposed to right, when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the left hand, or arm; the left ear. Also said of the corresponding side of the lower animals.
That part of surrounding space toward which the left side of one's body is turned; as, the house is on the left when you face North.
Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who are in the opposition; the advanced republicans and extreme radicals. They have their seats at the left-hand side of the presiding officer. See Center, and Right.
Situated so that the left side of the body is toward it; as, the left side of a deliberative meeting is that to the left of the presiding officer; the left wing of an army is that to the left of the center to one facing an enemy.
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Left Quotations
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
John Lennon
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Left Translations
left in Afrikaans is linkerkant
left in Danish is til venstre
left in Dutch is links, linker-
left in German is linke, links
left in Italian is sinistra, sinistro, a sinistra
left in Norwegian is venstre
left in Portuguese is esquerdo
left in Spanish is izquierdo, izq., izquierda
left in Swedish is kvar
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