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• I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about.

  Paris Hilton

  Writing, People, Computer

  "Hilton Seeks Simpler Life". Associated Press interview, www.foxnews.com. May 03, 2005.

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• The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.

  Dhani Jones

  Loss, Blow, Winning

  "Dhani Jones: "I'm Gonna Be The First Black James Bond"". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 10, 2009.

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• Lil Wayne is a person who I think is really deserving of the success he's had. I'm someone who can stay in the studio 24-7, and I've watched him stay in there just as long. He has a creativeness about him that I love.

  Missy Elliot

  Thinking, Wayne, Persons

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Civilization, Helping

  "Contact". Book by Carl Sagan. Chapter 20, p. 359, 1985.

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• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

  George Santayana

  Lasts, Firsts, Youth

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word "is". Literal and symbolic knowledge. The unknowable”

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• How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Art, Years, Twenties

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• Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends - arrow, road, man's life on earth. They are shaped round, in the manner of things eternal and stable - sun, world, God.

  Jean Giono

  Time, Night, Men

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• All civilized people see the day beginning at dawn or a little after or a long time after or whatever time their work begins; this they lengthen according to their work, during what they call 'all day long'; and end it when they close their eyes. It is they who say the days are long. On the contrary, the days are round.

  Jean Giono

  Work, Eye, People

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• Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.

  Peter Gzowski

  Summer, Time, Enough

  Peter Gzowski (2001). “A Peter Gzowski Reader”, McClelland & Stewart Ltd

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• When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years - and I find I mind it less and less.

  Louise Andrews Kent

  Years, Symphony, Mind

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• I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.

  Illmaculate

  Practice, Cities, Black

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• The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth a very old blind alley. There is a very long history to remind us of what happens when nature is our ultimate point of reference . . . . Nature knows no ethics. There is no right and wrong in nature; the controlling realities are power and fertility.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Reality, Age, Movement

  Lesslie Newbigin (1991). “Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth”

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• How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Memories, Moving, Book

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• I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Able, Denmark, Paint

  "Exclusive - Bones and Landscapes Inspire Danish Queen's Art". Interview with John Acher, www.reuters.com. January 26, 2012.

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• People still stereotype all day long. But if you forget your own age, you'll get so focused on the business that you become ultra-confident and people will forget to question how old you are.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  People, Age, Forget You

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• A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Men, Worst Enemy, Doubt

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• I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Beach, Yoga, Long Walks

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• Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.

  Simon Winchester

  Needs, Wonder, Crash

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• The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.

  F. William Engdahl

  War, Mean, Eugenics

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• Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

  William Moulton Marston

  Girl, Wonder Woman, Want

  "The Secret History of Wonder Woma". Book by Jill Lepore, 2014.

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• So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

  Adrian Tan

  Thinking, Years, People

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• A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Kind, Wit

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• May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

  John Henry Newman

  Giving, Support, Done

  'Wisdom and Innocence' (19 February 1843), in 'Sermons Bearing on Subjects of the Day' (1843) no. 20

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• And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Opinion, I Have Learned, Values

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Cabinet papers [contin.] 1794-1795. [Miscellanies, 1794-1795] Military papers. 1798-1800. Correspondence [contin.] 1789-1795”, p.52

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• The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Good Luck, House, Ghost

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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