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  • Barry Took There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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  • John F. Kennedy There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Carl Honore There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Brit Hume There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Annie Dillard There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bill Keller There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Jowett There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
    Attributed. Also attributed to Anita Loos.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Carl Sandburg There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Irving Berlin There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
    Irving Berlin
    American composer and lyricist (1888 - 1989)
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  • Alan K. Simpson There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
    Leviathan ch. 31
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • La Rochefoucauld There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is no past, so long as books shall live!
    The Souls of Books St. 4, 9
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Seneca There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • William E. Gladstone There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Alan Cranston There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • William M. Peck There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.
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  • Bill Burr There's a critical point, when you've stayed single too long, that your brain switches from No, don't say that to Eh, fuck it. Say it, see what happens.
    Why Do I Do This?
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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