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• Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Warrior, Long, Design

  Hunter S. Thompson's note to his grandson Will (2005), as quoted in William McKeen "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson", 2008.

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• I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Long, Lines, Sides

  "Jon Huntsman: The Potential Republican Presidential Candidate Democrats Most Fear". TIME Interview, content.time.com. May 12, 2011.

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• Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development.

  Ken Wilber

  Long, Lines, Firsts

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.542, Shambhala Publications

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• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture....The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

  Gustav Stickley

  Wall, Curves, Ideas

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• Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

  Ogden Nash

  New Year, Years, Long

  Ogden Nash (1954). “Many long years ago”

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• In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

  Milan Kundera

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

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• You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

  Gillian Flynn

  Home, Thinking, Long

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.42, Broadway Books

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• Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

  Eric Church

  Brother, Long, Lines

  Song: Sinners Like Me, Album: Sinners Like Me, 2006

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• To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Fall, Names

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• I play Peeta. That's his name. It was given to him by his parents. He comes from a long line of bread. His sister is Rye. And his brother is Whole Wheat.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Brother, Play, Names

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• Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.

  Max Lucado

  Long, Grace, Lines

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Love Worth Giving Deluxe Edition: Living in the Overflow of God's Love”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.

  J. B. Handelsman

  Years, Long, Lines

  "J. B. Handelsman" by Nancy Franklin, www.newyorker.com. July 2, 2007.

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• I've had a dozen people tell me, maybe more, 'What would have happened if Michael Brown had shot and killed Darren Wilson? Do you think he would be free right now? Do you think he would not have been charged by now?' People just see this manifest double-standard in front of them that's coming at the long line of a whole bunch of grievances that have built up over time because of the dynamics of Ferguson and frankly, the dynamics of race in America more broadly.

  Chris Hayes

  Thinking, America, Race

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• I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

  Erykah Badu

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Strong Women

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• Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Fun, Long, Trying

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• He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of next rounds. The thing he was fighting, you couldn't whip it for good. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place.

  Ken Kesey

  Fighting, Long, Lines

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.284, Penguin

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• Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.

  Neal Stephenson

  Badass, Self, Numbers

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• I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

  Robert Vaughn

  Long, Catholic, Lines

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• It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Two, Long, Broken

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• Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

  David Lynch

  Struggle, Long, Lines

  "Peace man" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2003.

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• I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

  Nathan Fillion

  Worry, Long, Trying

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• True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Believe, Years, Grandparent

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• It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

  Nicolas Cage

  Passion, Long, Killers

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• Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Opportunity, Blood

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• We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Long, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.193, Macmillan

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