Quotes with long-jump

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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.
    Source: 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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  • Bill Flores The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America's insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bun E. Carlos The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Ben Bernanke The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Hippocrates The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Clive James The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Nick Lappos The long term is really just a bunch of short terms taped together.
    Nick Lappos
    American helicopter technician
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  • Sophocles The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • C. S. Lewis The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
    Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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