"We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA."
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"Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave."
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"Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run."
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"There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth."
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"Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun."
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"Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it."
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"Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!"
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"Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation."
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"One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long."
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"Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises."
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"Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!"
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"To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct."
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"The dream is short, repentance long."
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"The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue."
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"It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one."
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"It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog."
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"But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time."
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"A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it."
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"There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes."
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"There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in."
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