"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others."
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"Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief."
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"I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine."
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"Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long."
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"The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love."
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"As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right."
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"True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable."
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"They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)"
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"You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too."
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"The secret to desire in a long-term relationship"
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"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars."
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"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
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"And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?"
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"you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious."
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"The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome."
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"Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants."
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"Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long."
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"It's only forever... Not long at all."
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"Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases."
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"As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow."
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