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• I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have been sent and apologies made and everyone else had moved on. Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions

  Reif Larsen

  Apology, Ideas, Long

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.317, Penguin

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• He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Regret, Mistake, Simple

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• Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Fun, Long, Over You

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

  Marion Nestle

  Strong, Vegetarian Diet, Long

  Nutrition Action Healthletter, October 1996.

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• History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Long, People, Together

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• Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

  Thomas Piketty

  Skills, Long, Favors

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

  Arsenio Hall

  Son, Opportunity, Years

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• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  Carla Gugino

  Ideas, Long, Sound

  "Carla Gugino on Taming Schmidt as 'New Girl's' Sexually Aggressive Guest Star". Interview with Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 13, 2012.

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• Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Character, Play, Long

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• I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

  Dick Cheney

  Mean, Issues, Long

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• Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Death, Long

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• There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out.

  Nicolas Cage

  Two, Australia, Long

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• You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.

  Fabiano Caruana

  Play, Long, Training

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• There were other Anti-Christs among the Nephites, but they were more military leaders than religious innovators... they are all of one breed and brand; so nearly alike that one mind is the author of them, and that a young and underdeveloped, but piously inclined mind. The evidence I sorrowfully submit, points to Joseph Smith as their creator. It is difficult to believe that they are a product of history, that they came upon the scene separated by long periods of time, and among a race which was the ancestral race of the red man of America.

  B. H. Roberts

  Religious, Military, Believe

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• Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.

  John Rawls

  Funny, Animal, Men

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• It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

  William Godwin

  Two, Long, Wish

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• I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

  Denzel Washington

  Success, Senior, Jobs

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• I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

  Emma Thompson

  Motherhood, Thinking, Best Effort

  "Between Friends". Interview with Jenny Allen, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 7, 2010.

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• 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.

  Donna Tartt

  Long, Together, Different

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• Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Long, Consistency, Purpose

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• I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Thinking, Long, Judging

  Senate Committee On The Judiciary Holds A Hearing On The Nomination Of Judge Sonia Sotomayor To Be An Associate Justice Of The U.S. Supreme Court, latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 14, 2009.

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• As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.

  Joe Rogan

  Yoga, Long, Way

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• I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

  Christina Ricci

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Lying, Cat

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• I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

  David Dreman

  Book, Yield, Cash Flow

  "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

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