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I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

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How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.

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It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

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Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

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The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

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Ay me! sad hours seem long.

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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

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Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.

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Love that well which thou must leave ere long.

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Long Quotes , Endless Quotes

Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

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We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

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The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

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Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."

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