Quotes with long-sought

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  • Robert A. Heinlein To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Pat Riley To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Selden To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Oscar Wilde To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
    The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Lewis To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Billy Corgan Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long....
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin Whorf Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Igor Stravinsky Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Bo Bennett Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Og Mandino Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Al Spalding Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
    Al Spalding
    American baseball player, and baseball manager and businessman (1850 - 1915)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Carolina Herrera Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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