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The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chap...

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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent...

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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among...

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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes...

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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technol...

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I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to ...

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It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain tha...

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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...

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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So...

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their...

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We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long ...

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The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisi...

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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and in...

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There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything...

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For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his...

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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

I think movies are too long.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we ha...

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Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If ...

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Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a...

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We die only once, and for such a long time.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists...

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Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these ...

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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were t...

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Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blas...

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Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in cho...

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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or com...

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I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towa...

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As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to de...

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As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to de...

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My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every c...

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There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such...

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When I was drafted by the Colts, Indianapolis was a basketball and a car racing town, but it didn't ...

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Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on ...

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Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrina...

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I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but ha...

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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enoug...

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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait lon...

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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...

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We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I ...

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No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touc...

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I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, lik...

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We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, a...

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I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

In the long run, the government can't bring revival; only the Church can do that. But government can...

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If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a l...

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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets ...

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I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the inven...

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If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to...

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Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want thei...

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One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from the...

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love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives prote...

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Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many cr...

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it posses...

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Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequ...

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Relationships have to have a give and take if they're going to work in the long term.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It'...

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I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaces...

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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look...

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If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; ...

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I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learn...

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I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me;...

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When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours ...

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It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your o...

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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...

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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our ...

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The...

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Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had g...

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I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be ...

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I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day l...

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Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm n...

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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

I go to the gym every day. That tends to taper off when I'm at a tournament. During tournaments, I'm...

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Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be...

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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons...

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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long a...

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Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.