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"Conditions are changing all the time, and to adapt one's thinking to the new conditions, one must study. Even those who have a better grasp of Marxism and are comparatively firm in their proletarian stand have to go on studying, have to absorb what is new and study new problems."
"I don't go on tour tours, I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule."
"That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning."
"Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?"
"I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for."
"The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living."
"Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you've had it: things'll never be the same. All you can do is go on, living alone down there in the darkness."
"A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it."
"A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming."
"I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this."
"I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television."
"An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly."
"You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion."
"Whatever you've done, you get it back, so you can either go on, or you can blow it."
"Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living."
"We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on."
"If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it."
"Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be."
"But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter."
"I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant."
