Quotes with duration

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  • Seneca Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Honoré de Balzac The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Corrie Ten Boom The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • Thomas Traherne This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Mark Twain Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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