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  • Carl von Clausewitz Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Clive James As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Benjamin Bratt As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis As for wrinkles-Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Butch Trucks As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • George Bernard Shaw As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Al Oerter As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.
    Al Oerter
    American athlete (1936 - 2007)
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  • Steffi Graf As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.
    Steffi Graf
    German tennis player (1969 - )
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  • Bruce Lee As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Alanis Morissette As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Artemisia Gentileschi As long as I live I will have control over my being.
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  • Lord George Byron As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Berlie Doherty As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.
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  • Belle Boyd As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • John Stuart Mill As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • E. M. Forster As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Myriam Miedzian As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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