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  • When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Long Quotes , People Quotes
  • I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at times has suggested, that giving heavy weapons, for example, to the Syrian opposition is a simple proposition that would lead us to be safer over the long term.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Simple Quotes , Long Quotes
  • If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Keys Quotes , Long Quotes
  • Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Art Quotes , Long Quotes
  • No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Law Quotes , Long Quotes
  • Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Long Quotes , Effort Quotes
  • These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Two Quotes , Long Quotes