Barack Obama Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Long Quotes

As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.

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Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

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Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

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You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

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As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

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Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

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We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.

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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Long Quotes , Waiting Quotes

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Long Quotes , May Quotes

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Long Quotes , Personality Quotes

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Long Quotes , Way Quotes

I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Long Quotes , Leader Quotes

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

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To live long, live slowly.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Opposites Quotes , Long Quotes

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Past Quotes , Long Quotes

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

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