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  • John Adams Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • J. C. Macaulay Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
    J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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  • John Milton Revenge, at first though sweet,
    Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
    Paradise lost (1667) IX, 171
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Alice Miller Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bonnie Bassler Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Carl Lewis Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bobby Vinton Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Ade She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Aeschylus Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Earl Wilson Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Baruch Spinoza So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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