"So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied."
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"I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it."
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"The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is subjected to certain mechanical and, mainly, chemical processing, and then, through innumerable side-streets, it is brought into the depot of the body. Aside from this basic series of institutions, along which the raw material moves, there is a series of lateral chemical manufactories, which prepare certain reagents for the appropriate processing of the raw material."
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"It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion."
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"As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later."
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"That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around."
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"My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time."
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"People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other."
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"A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second."
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"A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it."
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"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not."
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"She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings."
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"I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it."
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"It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one."
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"Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive."
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"Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!"
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"I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play."
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"We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love."
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"I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it."
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"If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance."
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