Quotes with long-shot

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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
    Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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  • Salman Rushdie After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Groucho Marx Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Babe Paley All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Benjamin Watson All I'm saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who can control all those things, or is he the god that we don't even trust with our daily lives... As long as there's prayer and exams, as long as there's games, there will be prayers.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • James Thurber Art, the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland.
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  • Nelson Mandela Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Epicurus Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Russell B. Long Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
    Russell B. Long
    American Democratic politician (1918 - 2003)
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  • Walt Disney Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Lynd Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • James Cash Penney Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.
    James Cash Penney
    American businessman and entrepreneur (1875 - 1971)
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