"Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old."
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"I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men."
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"Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor."
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"It's a lifestyle. If you do something good that is worth making, you should make it forever. It's like being a farmer. Just because he makes a gallon of milk doesn't make him stop."
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"I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009 film] forever?"
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"Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and when we can get it - whether it is or is not administered to us in the most commodious manner, in the most proper place, or at the exact minute when we would wish to have it."
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"The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It.""
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"... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever."
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"I think forever is an incorrect concept."
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"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."
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"Friends are forever Boys are whatever."
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"But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!"
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"The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever."
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"Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising."
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"I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it."
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"Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness."
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"I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth."
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"One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever."
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"Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language."
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"I believe in classic ideas. They are timeless. They are forever. There are many fads in management."
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