Mac Miller
Rapper, Singer, Songwriter
"Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength."
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Length
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Ruskin Bond
Author
"It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Allegories drawn to great length will always break."
Martin Freeman
Actor
"I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog."
Henry Ford
Industrialist
"The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet."
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"The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary."
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"No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is."
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"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."
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"Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment."
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"It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought."
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"Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?"
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"A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands."
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"I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it."
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"But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed."
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"We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she is dead to us, and we live on, prisoners within the walls which were intended only for her."
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"Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end."
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"It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really."
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"Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length."
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"You cannot judge the value of a life by its length."
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"Right before I'm about to talk at length about something I like I say, Get me started."
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"It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!"
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"Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future."
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"Let the weary at length possess quiet rest."
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"The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will."
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"I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point...? Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked. Expecto Patronum! The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall."
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