"Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together."
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"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony"
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"She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life."
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"It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice."
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"Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem."
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"It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."
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"Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction."
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"A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?"
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"I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry."
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"In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here."
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"It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you."
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"Golf will grow so long as it’s fun."
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"Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross"
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"We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be."
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"To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go."
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"I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks"
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"I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long."
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"As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again."
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"It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else."
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"Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat."
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