- Flare
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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
Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics lasts only so long - though today it's getting harder to tell where the campaigning stops and the governing begins.
- Nickname
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one knows exactly when I got the nickname Doro, but I've been called that as long as anyone can remember.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
- Nov 07, 2020
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not about just how to maximize your finances but make sure it lasts a long time.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020