Quotes with long-standing

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  • Bono All That You Can't Leave Behind and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb are both really mad long titles. As I've just said them, I've just realised how ridiculous the titles are.
    CNN Interview, after the 2006 Grammys (9 February 2006)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All we have of freedom - all we use or know - this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Aldous Huxley Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Beth Behrs Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.
    Beth Behrs
    American actress and writer (1985 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Edward. E. Cummings America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Ben Shapiro America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • James Russell Lowell An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Austin O'Malley An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Bayard Taylor An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Bill Dedman An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bodhidharma And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Martin Luther King And I believe it because somehow the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
    Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Barack Obama And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Barack Obama And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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