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"We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term."
"Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'"
"God help us -- for art is long, and life so short."
"One errs as long as one strives."
"Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events."
"It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires."
"Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love."
"Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?"
"You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time."
"Long is the road from conception to completion."
"Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy."
"Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish."
"Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow."
"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long."
"Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?"
"I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance."
"And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy."
"time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough"
"As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider."
"As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance."
