Quotes with long-haul

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  • Arthur Capper The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Ben Bernanke The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Seneca The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bobby Seale The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • John Major The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
    John Major
    British politician (1943 - )
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  • Mikhail Bakunin The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Bruce Coville The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Carl Van Doren The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • George Santayana The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
    Dialogues in Limbo (1925)
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Dean Smith The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.
    Dean Smith
    American basketball coach (1931 - 2015)
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  • C. S. Lewis The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • George Orwell The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Edmund Burke The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
    An Old Mans Diary (1981) p. 39
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lillian Smith The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Billy Beane The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Earl Nightingale The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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