"A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists."
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"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another."
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"His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted."
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"I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not "rolled up inside us" but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory."
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"I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through."
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"The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it."
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"The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back."
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"It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down."
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"and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go."
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"It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past."
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"And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn."
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"Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. [Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]"
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"Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?"
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"You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view."
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"Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences."
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"Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'."
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"I think as long as you look like your having a good time, I'm impressed. Because I have a lot of energy, and I like being around it all the time. If you're just sitting in the corner, I probably won't notice you."
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"It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world."
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"Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain."
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"In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time."
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