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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."
"Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples."
"No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures."
"It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of."
"A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great many secret emotions: "Yes, a woman must be pretty if she is to please the men. A man is much better off. As long as he has five straight limbs, he needs no more!""
"This was the point of our lives when we found pills, uppers. That's the only way we could continue playing for so long. They were called Preludin, and you could buy them over the counter. We never thought we were doing anything wrong, but we'd get really wired and go on for days. So with beer and Preludin, that's how we survived."
"Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human."
"I only have one why, and my challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as long as possible."
"In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin."
"The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten."
"Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers."
"Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end."
"When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies."
"Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it."
"I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time."
"A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began"
"Show me an executive that works long hard hours and I'll show you a bad executive."
"When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing."
"He will long be remembered as one of the great Christian thinkers of our century, with a childlike faith and a profound compassion toward others. It can rarely be said of an individual that his life touched many others and affected them for the better; it will be said of Francis Schaeffer that his life touched millions of souls and brought them to the truth of their creator."
"Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death."
