"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead"
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"[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure."
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"No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream."
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"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side."
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"I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back."
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"A sympathizer is a fellow that's for you as long as it doesn't cost anything."
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"Correct is to recognize what diseases are and whence they come; which are long and which are short; which are mortal and which are not; which are in the process of changing into others; which are increasing and which are diminishing; which are major and which are minor; to treat the diseases that can be treated, but to recognize the ones that cannot be, and to know why they cannot be; by treating patients with the former, to give them the benefit of treatment as far as it is possible."
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"So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it."
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"I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching."
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"I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it."
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"The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then."
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"As long as I am this or that, I am not all things."
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"Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other."
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"The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through."
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"I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free."
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"I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."
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"All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem"
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"Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday. Heart feels better, then. But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart. Heart is so new to this. I want them back, says heart. Head is all heart has. Help, head. Help heart."
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"How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?"
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"De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end."
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