"Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time."
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"We’re not living in an age of no hope. We are living in the age of choice, which is much scarier. It means that what we do every day matters, which is always a bummer for humans. But it’s a great thing and it’s inspirational and we need to remember that. We have a long way to go and not a long time to get there."
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"Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them."
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"I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest."
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"If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged “good” can justify it-there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations."
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"When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me."
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"Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured."
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"The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation."
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"I've been outta my mind a long time."
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"If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time."
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"The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken."
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"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."
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"Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice."
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"It takes a long time to sound like yourself."
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"Don't get impatient when it takes too long."
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"There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you."
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"My chops were not as fast... [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes"
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"Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration."
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"...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair."
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"We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence."
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