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• It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Cheer, Patriotic

  "Two Brutal Crimes Revive Debate Over Guns; Comic Book Artist's Demand for Respect 'Spawns' an Empire; Can New Gun Technology Save Lives?". "CNN Newsstand", www.cnn.com. March 3, 2000.

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Numbers

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• I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is to constitute it as Sparta and Venice were constituted; to place it in a strong position, and so to fortify it that no one will dream of taking it by a sudden assault; and, on the other hand, not to make it so large as to appear formidable to its neighbors. It should in this way be able to enjoy its form of government for a long time. For war is made on a commonwealth for two reasons: to subjugate it, and for fear of being subjugated by it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Dream, Art, Strong

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.

  Margery Williams

  Life, Time, Educational

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.13, Marshall Cavendish

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• Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.

  William Anders

  Airplane, Kids, Long

  Transcript of Apollo 8 Flight Journal, history.nasa.gov. December 24, 1968.

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• The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.

  Robert Crippen

  Airplane, Eight, Sitting Still

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• I am not surprised that the president of the United States called this a phony scandal. I'm not surprised Secretary Clinton asked, "What difference does it make?" I'm not even surprised that Jay Carney said Benghazi happened a long time ago. I'm just surprised at how many people bought it.

  Trey Gowdy

  Trust, Bad Ass, Usa

  "Gowdy: Why Does the Media Not Care About Benghazi?". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 18, 2014.

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• Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.

  James T. Conway

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .

  Kevin Rudd

  Ambition, Differences, Long

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• If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Inspirational, Motivation, Opportunity

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• You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

  Gordie Howe

  Pain, Attitude, Hockey

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• There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail."

  James C. Collins

  Life, Motivational, Giving Up

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• There is nothing that is happening because of something you vibrated a long time ago or in a past life. It is not about what you were born into. It is only about what you are, right now, in this red hot fresh moment emitting.

  Esther Hicks

  Past, Law Of Attraction, Long

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• I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it.

  Pete Coors

  Drinking, Issues, Long

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• Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness of breath can be a symptom of heart problems. In her case, the much more likely cause is the elephant on her chest. For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. That is the elephant. Until the playing field has veen leveled and lingering stereotypes are gone, you can't even ask the question.

  Sally Ride

  Lying, Heart, Bad Ass

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• For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Love, Children, Latin

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• Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

  Hank Aaron

  Home, Hair, Long

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• I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, Long, Bells

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• The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

  Bob Hope

  Long, Age, Growing

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• It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other.

  Pat Robertson

  Silly, Blessing, Long

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• Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sadness, Long, Misery

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• The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Fighting, Men

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• To miss one year is a long time. I've never been in this situation before, and I'm getting as much information as I can about my foot, to see what's the best for me and best for the Rockets.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Feet, Years

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• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Mother, Daughter

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.

  Naomi Wolf

  Makeup, Long, Doe

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