Quotes with longer-term

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  • Alexis de Tocqueville When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bobby Jindal When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way.
    Austin-American Statesman, published November 23, 2008
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Jacques Prevert When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
    Jacques Prevert
    French poet and prose st (1900 - 1977)
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  • George O'Neil When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Bobby Locke When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.
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  • E. M. Cioran When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Ben Goldacre When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Carl Levin While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Carl Sagan 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
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Dedman With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold With President Obama restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, the immigration preferential treatment given to Cubans... no longer makes sense.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Brad Delson 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.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Antonin Artaud With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Charles Swindoll Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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