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• Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.

  James Lovelock

  Stars, Fall, Long Ago

  "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth". Book by James Lovelock, 1979.

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• It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Waiting Around, People, Boudoir

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• Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

  Robert Duvall

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• Everybody's still talking about diplomacy and I'm very hopeful that as long as we talk about diplomacy, as long as we're not talking about enforcement measures, sanctions, et cetera, we are on the right track. But we need to accelerate the process.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Talking, Track, Hopeful

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• It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

  Kate Jackson

  Time, Artist, Doe

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• The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

  Kenny Loggins

  Letting Go, Running, Good Life

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• I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

  Chris Marker

  Betrayal, Long Ago, Gutenberg

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• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  Gary North

  Christian, Facts, Action

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• I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Choices, Important, Way

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• Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

  Spider Robinson

  Art

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• No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Memories, Self, Intellectual

  "A Life of Erwin Schrödinger". Book by Walter Moore, 1994.

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• But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Sympathy, Strong, Elude You

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• The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

  Armstrong Williams

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Effort

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• Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.

  Thomas Frank

  Beer, Class, Conservative

  Thomas Frank (2007). “What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America”, p.118, Macmillan

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• Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

  Jack White

  Patience, Passion, Suffering

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• Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Real, Ideas, Giving

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

  Charles Tennyson Turner

  Dream, Bees And Honey, Littles

  Charles Tennyson Turner, James Spedding (1880). “Collected Sonnets, Old and New”

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• Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

  Gene Brown

  Advice, Grace, Firsts

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• People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

  David Cameron

  Country, Party, Common Sense

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• Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

  Teresa of Avila

  Hope, Soul, Watches

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• I was only halfway to the record and it seemed like it took me a long time. I feel like that one will never be broken. That record will never be touched.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Baseball, Broken, Records

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• If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Wife, Suffering, Wish

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• I really don't care about being the first, so long as it inspires someone else to be the second.

  Raha Moharrak

  Inspire, Care, Firsts

  "First Saudi woman summits Mount Everest" by Bryony Jones, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.

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• The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.

  David Lee

  Firsts, Easy, Restaurants

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• It's just that [the Hawks have made] a lot of changes. A lot of their great players have moved on. They have a lot of new faces and a lot of young guys who are going to be a part of this team for a long time. It'll take time. They've got a nice little core to start with.

  Mike Modano

  Nice, Team, Player

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