- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.
- Racism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attica. The name itself has long signified resistance to prison abuse and state violence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think 'Performance' blew my mind... my mind was blown long before that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.
- African Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020