Haile Selassie Quotes, Iran Quotes, Long Quotes

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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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.

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If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

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Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

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I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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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.

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We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

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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

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

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Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

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A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Taken Quotes , Long Quotes

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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For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

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Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.

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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

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You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

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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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I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

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As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

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