- People
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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.
- Invention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
- Apologize
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020