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"Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us"
"It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself."
"No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside."
"The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long."
"I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away."
"He's a nice young lad. I'll keep putting him on ... as long as he doesn't tell me any lies. He's back focused and it's great to see. Let's hope he keeps going on from that."
"The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible."
"If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why is 'phonics' not spelled the way it sounds? How come abbreviated is such a long word?"
"Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be."
"Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them."
"Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence."
"This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil."
"When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened."
"Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy."
"The fight will last as long as I allow it to last."
"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."
"The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey."
"Beware of long arguments and long beards."
"The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God."
"The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration.""
