"I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily."
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"Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember."
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"Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!"
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"He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness."
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"I think there is an enormous diference between speaking and writing. One rereads what one writes. But one might read it slowly or quickly. In other words, you do not know how long you will have to spend deliberating over a sentence. ... But if I listen to a tape recorder, the listening time is determined by the speed at which the tape turns and not by my own needs."
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"Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was another irony because, for so long, he had shunned the tube for a similar purpose-to prevent it from bombarding his brain with demons of banality. However, each time he turned the machine on, he began to discover a world of assorted delights, as well as gain insight into the insidious manner in which this medium was shaping the mass psyche. If nothing else, he learned there was nothing innocuous about it."
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"If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength."
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"My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone."
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"It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it."
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"A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long."
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"Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments."
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"So long as they speak your name, you shall never die."
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"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced."
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"Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire."
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"A house built on greed cannot long endure."
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"Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen."
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"The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations."
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"A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough."
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"Our experience tends to confirm a long-held notion that being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical thing, will often dramatically improve the financial results of that lifetime."
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"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."
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