George W. Bush Quotes, Texas Quotes, Long Quotes

If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.

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If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

The one who rules like the mother lasts long.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

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

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Long Quotes

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Long Quotes , Mind Quotes

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

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Tags : Abraham Polonsky Quotes , Holiday Quotes , Long Quotes

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

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I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

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Tags : Al Jarreau Quotes , Long Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Long Quotes , Depth Quotes

Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Wife Quotes , Long Quotes

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Wings Quotes , Long Quotes

In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope. There' a reason why people like [Al-Qaida leader Osama] bin Laden are able to recruit suiciders, because if you don't have hope, you're attracted to an ideology which says, it's OK to kill people and kill yourself.

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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Long Quotes , Matter Quotes

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Long Quotes , Desire Quotes

There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

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The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.

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