"So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm."
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"The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending."
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"I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one."
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"The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude."
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"So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can."
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"It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured."
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"The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water."
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"I forgot my watch. Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret. Not coming here in the first place - that seemed like an obvious choice - but my bare wrist, which makes it impossible for me to know how long I have been sitting in this room. My back aches, which is some indication, but it is not definite enough."
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"The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution."
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"As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere."
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"Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing."
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"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
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"A woman is not old as long as she loves and is loved"
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"The hour I have long wished for is now come."
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"No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it."
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"Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it."
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"It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life."
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"Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else."
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"This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought."
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"But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going. Sometimes I even go to Fun parks and ride in the jet cars when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don't care as long as they're insured. As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone's happy. Sometimes I sneak around and listen in subways. Or I listen at soda fountains, and do you know what? People don't talk about anything."
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