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"What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own."
"Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been."
"Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers."
"Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles."
"The problem with most religious people is they try to earn grace but you can’t earn it. And as long as you’re trying to earn it by works, you don’t receive it. At some point you just have to stop trying to earn it and just receive it."
"A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master."
"To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long."
"God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild."
"As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us."
"May all the gods whom I settled in their sacred centers ask daily of Bêl and Nâbu that my days be long and may they intercede for my welfare. ... The people of Babylon blessed my kingship, and I settled all the lands in peaceful abodes."
"Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow."
"Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals."
"The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it."
"It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control."
"Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad."
"There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again."
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
"Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way."
"If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created."
