- Hair
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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
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
- Dirty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Credit default swap is basically just an agreement that I have with you, where I sell you insurance on some bond you own. If the bond goes belly up, I promise to pay you. And as long as the bond doesn't go belly up, you pay me for selling you insurance.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an open secret that if a debtor is willing to wait long enough, he can probably get away with paying almost nothing, as long as he doesn't mind hurting his credit score.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you're close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020