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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
- Teacher
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the worst teacher you have ever imagined - not that we did not have fun. We had a ton of fun. We just did not learn any scripture. I would think all week long what could I talk about on Sunday, and then I would scramble on Saturday to find some kind of scripture to go with it. This was my teaching.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
- Nov 07, 2020
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
- Healthy Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll try to be young mentally and physically as long as I can to play as many games as possible, but I know, at one point, it will start to be more difficult.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time has long since come for truth, transparency, and talks in every sector of society, including media, advertisement and entertainment. We can challenge each other, gain understanding, and create a more just, humane, and peaceful world.
- Breathe
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020