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  • Menander of Athens Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli No Government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Booker T. Washington No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bon Scott No matter how long you play rock and roll, songs might change just as long as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us
    Interview with Record Review, 1979
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  • Minor White No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
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  • Bertolt Brecht No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Lawrence Durrell No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Mary Cholmondeley No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime ''Let out all the length of all the reins.''
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  • Bernard Malamud No one had written a good long life of Schubert. He had lived long in music and short in life.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Brian Tracy No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Horace No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lazarus Long No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
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  • Horace No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Bill Ford Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Malcolm X Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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