"I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly."
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"It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes."
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"Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of."
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"We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit."
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"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time."
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"The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known."
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"The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door."
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"I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one."
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"Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures."
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"No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity."
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"Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long."
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"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."
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"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
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"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt"
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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."
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"Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long."
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"I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress."
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"Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth."
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