"I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened."
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"Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth."
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"Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom."
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"Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over."
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"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?"
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"With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything."
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"Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there"
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"To me, I go out there, and I do what I trained. We prepare so long for that moment, so it's just kind of exciting."
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"No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it."
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"Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn’t it?"
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"The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long."
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"Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals."
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"Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn — Chang’s Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt’s precision-balance is really noticeable in these long —” “JORDAN! ARE YOU BEING PAID TO ADVERTISE FIREBOLTS? GET ON WITH THE COMMENTARY!"
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"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."
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"It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any."
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"To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break."
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"Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being."
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"I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself."
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"But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot."
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"As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things."
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