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"When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come."
"Stop being frightened. You only see a monster because they want you to see monsters everywhere. They've conditioned you to look for monsters in every shadow, every coat hung on every door. As long as we keep seeing monsters, we'll continue to need protection and that's how other people get to control our lives."
"I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity."
"If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long."
"Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work."
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."
"It's a long climb up Fools' Hill."
"In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May."
"Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way."
"Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can remember, and you'll be that way all your life. It's a way of being, not a disease."
"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."
"In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions."
"It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods ... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ's time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools."
"So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things."
"My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time."
"What does a man seek in this world? A position, or a throne? Man seeks peace of mind and the fear of Almighty God. As long as one knows that there is ajudgement day, he tries to keep his conscience clear and do what he can."
"How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God."
"For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand."
"He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time."
"... the long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts."
