"If I had a dreamcatcher when I was thirteen, it would have spent many long days in the dryer."
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"Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long."
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"To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in."
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"The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning."
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"Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers."
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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
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"Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?"
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"For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations."
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"In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it."
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"Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort."
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"I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes."
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"Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have."
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"In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate."
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"The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain."
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"Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat, free of one’s own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless. I forget who said it and I no longer care."
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"Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it."
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"I'm one of the artists that even though I love my soulful stuff, I love to turn up and have a good time and that's another side of me. As long as it doesn't veer away from who I am, I'm down with it."
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"Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar."
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"I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon."
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"There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out."
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