"If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which."
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"If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden."
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"If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long."
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"I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say."
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"Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for fraud and folly is a disgrace. In a democracy, it often takes a scandal to trigger reform. Enron was the most obvious example of a business culture gone wrong in a long, long time."
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"Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others."
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"The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time."
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"I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and find it hard to concentrate on anything other than the sensation of it trickling away."
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"Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on, delighting like a pagan in all that is physical; and i know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart."
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"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
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"The life of an artist is a continuous journey, the path long and never ending."
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"I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side."
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"The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever."
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"Do what's right for you, so long as it don't hurt no one."
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"What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be"
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"My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress."
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"I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do."
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"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."
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"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."
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"Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down."
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