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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • George Robert Gissing Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Harry S. Truman How do you live a long life? ''Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.''
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • John Ruskin How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jim Rohn How long should you try? Until.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bob Marley How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Henry George How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Bill Maris Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Leo Rosten Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Aishwarya Rai I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
    Aishwarya Rai
    Indian actress and model (1973 - )
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  • Anne Dudley I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Chimamanda Adichie I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
    We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • Colette I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lord George Byron I am so changeable, being every thing by turns and nothing long,— I am such a strange mélange of good and evil.
    The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (1833)
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Anita Roddick I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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