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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy -
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.
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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
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Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
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Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
Phaedrus -
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it.
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Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
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Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
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You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.
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You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
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You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
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You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
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You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
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