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  • Carlos Ghosn People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • John Banville Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
    Source: De zee (2008) 98
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Mark Twain Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aaron Siskind Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
    Aaron Siskind
     
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  • Eugene Wigner Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
    Eugene Wigner
     
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  • Carlo Collodi Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
    Source: Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Ben Hogan Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Billy Casper Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • Billy Collins Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bethany McLean Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Ogden Nash Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Jean Anouilh Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Gene Fowler Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Buffalo Bill Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Calvin Harris Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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