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  • Carol Bellamy For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Adam Michnik France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Carl Sandburg Freedom is baffling:
    men having it often
    know not they have it
    till it is gone and
    they no longer have it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Franz Kafka From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Basil Bunting Gin the goodwife stint
    and the bairns hunger
    the Duke can get his rent
    one year longer.
    Odes Gin the Goodwife Stint, I:14
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Bede Griffiths God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Bill Richardson Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Mark Twain Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi He had scarcely told the lie when his nose, which was already long, grew at once two fingers longer.
    Pinocchio (1892)
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Albert Einstein He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Aleksandar Hemon Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
    The Lazarus Project (2009) 3
    Aleksandar Hemon
    Short story writer, novelist, columnist (1964 - )
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  • Aleksandar Hemon Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
    The Lazarus Project (2009) 3
    Aleksandar Hemon
    Bosnian-American author, critic and screenwriter (1964 - )
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