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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.
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If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
Source: Saint Joan (1924) -
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
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In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
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In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
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In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
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In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
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In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
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In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
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In the aftermath of President Obama's re-election, members of both the administration and the media trumpeted that Obama had received his long-sought mandate. Obamacare, Americans were told, was the law of the land. It could not be changed; it could not be stopped.
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