Quotes with long-run

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  • Plutarch Character is simply habit long continued.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • J. G. Ballard The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • George Bernard Shaw As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Stephen Leacock Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • S. Leacock Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
    S. Leacock
     
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  • George Bernard Shaw Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    Source: As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Adams As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Don Delillo Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Voltaire A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Oscar Wilde A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alice Meynell A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Confucius A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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