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  • Joseph Joubert The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Ben Brantley The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Gerald W. Johnson The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
    Gerald W. Johnson
    American journalist, editor, essayist, historian and biographer (1890 - 1980)
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  • George Orwell The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Vaclav Havel The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Caitlin Moran The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any egoconsciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
    The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Ben Bernanke The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • James Agate The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
    James Agate
    English diarist and theatre critic (1877 - 1947)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Boris Becker The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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