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"In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime."
"Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure."
"Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill."
"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."
"The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied. It is a work of charity to shout: 'Here is the wolf!' when it enters the flock or anywhere else."
"I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970."
"Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?"
"Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the gifts we bear, /So heavy and so painful the fashioning of them, /So long the road given us to travel them. A separate people, /We bring a gift to celebrate each other, /’Tis a gift to be gay! / Feel the pride of it!"
"All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others or the Earth, it's your choice when you decide how you want to live your life - Yours and yours alone. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with."
"Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough!"
"No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms."
"Justice too long delayed is justice denied."
"Long live the Unity of Latin America."
"I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been."
"Faded way too long, I'm floatin in and out of consciousness"
"The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish."
"I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame."
"How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven."
"Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin."
"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."
