"It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible."
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"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."
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"Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it."
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"Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible."
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"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis."
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"No one can keep a mask on long."
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"As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one."
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"Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip."
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"My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties."
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"I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming."
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"A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others."
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"You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and heart."
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"Overnight success stories take a long time."
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"But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter."
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"Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out."
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"Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded."
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"To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire."
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"I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning."
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""I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for.""
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"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
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