Quotes with long-suffering

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  • Blake Farenthold Everybody wants to help folks out. But we've got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Phil McGraw Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.
    Phil McGraw
    American television personality and author (1950 - )
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Will Rogers Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps Experience is the extract of suffering.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • John Updike Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Herbert Kaufman Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
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  • Marilyn Monroe Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Far in a western brookland
    That bred me long ago
    The poplars stand and tremble
    By pools I used to know.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 52, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • George Eliot Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Carl Sagan For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Bradley For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Bob Seger For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Butch Trucks For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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