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  • Jonathan Swift Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Ogden Nash Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Jonathan Swift Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Caitlin Moran Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Gertrude Stein Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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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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  • 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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  • Thomas Jefferson Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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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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  • 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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