"How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be."
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"I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born."
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"Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits."
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"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
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"The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive."
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"Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does."
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"For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal."
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"When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood."
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"The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions."
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"I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits."
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"It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation."
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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
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"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."
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"When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken."
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"Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear."
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"Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be."
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"When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold."
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"The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world."
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"I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world."
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"So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't."
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