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  • Beverly Sills My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • E. M. Cioran Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Menander of Athens Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • M. Scott Peck Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
    M. Scott Peck
    American psychiatrist and author (1936 - 2005)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli No Government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Booker T. Washington No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bon Scott No matter how long you play rock and roll, songs might change just as long as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us
    Interview with Record Review, 1979
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  • Minor White No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
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  • Kofi Annan No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.
    (2006)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Bertolt Brecht No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Lawrence Durrell No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Mary Cholmondeley No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime ''Let out all the length of all the reins.''
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  • Bernard Malamud No one had written a good long life of Schubert. He had lived long in music and short in life.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Brian Tracy No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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