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"We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied.""
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"As long as I am this or that, or have this or that, I am not all things and I have not all things. Become pure till you neither are nor have either this or that; then you are omnipresent and, being neither this nor that, are all things."
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"The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix"
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"I am free to make anything I want as long as I think it will sell."
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"There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the market for a long time. After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir"
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"The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little."
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"Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory."
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"Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?"
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"As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it."
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"I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth."
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"People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything."
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"A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long."
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"I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it’s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket."
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"I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you."
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"Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret."
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"I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences."
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"I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring."
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"I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees."
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"Love is short, but forgetting is long."
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