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"Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things."
"A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder."
"A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one fault of the Long Parliament; but more remarkably of Holland, whose assembly first voted themselves from annual to septennial, then for life, and after a course of years, that all vacancies happening by death or otherwise, should be filled by themselves, without any application to constituents at all."
"In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. There was a period, a long period, dating from my childhood until quite recently, when I thought I did. A period during which I believed that I could keep people fully present, keep them with me, by preserving their mementos, their "things," their totems."
"Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood."
"I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term."
"Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior."
"When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result."
"I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans."
"Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity."
"The long historian of my country's woes."
"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."
"As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free."
"If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over."
"Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long."
"Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it."
"I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy."
"Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience."
"Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives."
"Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear."
