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  • William Hazlitt If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Baruch Spinoza If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
    Source: Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Jamie Oliver If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
    Jamie Oliver
    British celebrity chef and restaurateur (1975 - )
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  • Angela Thirkell If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
    Source: The Headmistress (1945)
    Angela Thirkell
    English writer (1890 - 1961)
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  • George Santayana If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bill Gurley If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Bert McCracken If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • John Irving If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Carl Sagan If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
    Source: Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carl Sagan If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
    Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ben Stein If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Gloria Steinem If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Art Buchwald If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • William James If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; ''Hold on!''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
    Original: Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • A. N. Wilson If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Arthur Bloch If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
    Arthur Bloch
    American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books (1948 - )
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