Lasting Quotes - Page 20

• Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

  Peter George Peterson

  Cutting, Long, Political

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• The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away.

  Moshe Sharett

  Opportunity, Problem, Reaching

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• Whence has come thy lasting power.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1891). “Poems”

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• Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

  Frank Oski

  Medicine, Feeding, Informed Consent

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• Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Doe, Reason

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 14, 19,

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• An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Men, Remembrance, Architect

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 4,

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• Ironically, people who suppress the mini-confrontations for fear of conflict tend to have huge conflicts later, which can lead to separation, precisely because they let minor problems fester. On the other hand, people who address the mini-conflicts head-on in order to straighten things out tend to have the great, long-lasting relationships.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Hands, Order

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• I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

  Sonny Rollins

  Writing, Alive, I'm Alive

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• There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he cannot think; he saunters about from one dull business to another, to wear out time; and hath no reason to value Life but because he is afraid of death.

  Gilbert Burnet

  Running, Men, Thinking

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• The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Responsibility, Roots

  "Inner Peace, World Peace : Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence". Book by Kenneth Kraft, p. 2, 1992.

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• Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Daughter, Father

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• until you have, once at least, faced everything you know - the whole universe - with utter giving in, and let all that is 'not you' flow over and engulf you, there can be no lasting sense of security. Only by being prepared to accept annihilation can one escape from that spiritual 'abiding alone' which is in fact the truly death-like state.

  Marion Milner

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Giving

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• Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.

  Rick Pitino

  Motivational, Meaningful, Hard

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.

  John Adams

  Government, People, Liberty

  Letter to Zabdiel Adams, "Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 4", memory.loc.gov. June 21, 1776.

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• Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Yield, Effort, Benefits

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• We must live our lives in such a way that our children, and their children after them, will form a natural and lasting commitment to the vigorous life. Only in this way can we be assured that the spirit and strength of America will be constantly replenished.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Commitment, America

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• War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

  Abdul Kalam

  War, Problem, Solutions

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• The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fear, Men, Mutual

  Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Gert (1972). “Man and Citizen: De Homine and De Cive”, p.113, Hackett Publishing

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• A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.

  Bill Moyers

  Trying, Saboteurs, Impression

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• To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as 'continual improvement.' Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change.

  Marci Shimoff

  Baby, Japan, Progress

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• Shop smarter and shop less. But please don't let that dissuade you from engaging in campaigns to make real lasting change.

  Annie Leonard

  Real, Lasting Change, Campaigns

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• Lasting change is a series of compromises.

  Jane Goodall

  Lasting Change, Compromise, Series

  "Subject: Jane Goodall, primatologist and conservationist". Interview at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, www.dailysummit.net. 2002.

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• The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

  Thomas Paine

  Intimacy, Infancy, Misfortunes

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.37, Penguin

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• The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality.

  Hannah Arendt

  Reality, Differences, Victory

  Hannah Arendt (2012). “Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

  Dick Cavett

  Reassuring, Longevity, Subjects

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