"Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold."
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"There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards."
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"I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs."
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""Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?"
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"In the long run, not doing what's necessary to do the thing you're afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing it."
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"In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental."
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"We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others."
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"There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up."
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"Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed."
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"How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen."
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"I'm a very introverted guy, so I don't need to be around people for as long as someone who's very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se."
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"Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't."
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"You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on."
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"An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed."
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"It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop."
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"An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright."
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"Falling into Place: deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly."
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"You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough."
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"Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, ’tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am"
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"The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead."
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