"Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait."
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"If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man."
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"One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel."
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"As long as a character doesnt die, the character can always come back."
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"How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?"
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"A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance."
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"All day long you see those commercials: 'Here's Your Brain, Just Say No'...and the next commercial is: 'This Bud's For You.'"
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"I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?"
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"The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical."
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"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
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"Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence."
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"I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?"
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"No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me"
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"Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long."
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"It's difficult to relax on tournaments, even in posh hotels, because you don't know how long you will be there - whether you'll lose a match on the first day and leave or whether you'll stay for longer."
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"I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time."
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"One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives."
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"I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand."
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"Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it."
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"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long."
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