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"Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests."
"The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value."
"As long as any man exists, there is some need of him."
"As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions."
"Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other."
"As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth."
"Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it."
"Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out."
"...a great good is worth being long desired."
"You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time"
"Life is not long for anybody, and the problem is only to make something of it."
"I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for."
"But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for."
"What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing."
"I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time."
"A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities."
"Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena."
"An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it."
"Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating."
"The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been."
