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As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.

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So long as I'm the president, we will. I clearly see the challenge. I see the challenge of what these threats pose to our homeland, and I see the challenge of what these threats pose to the world.

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As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Long Quotes , Understanding Quotes

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Quotes

After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Errors Quotes , Long Quotes

I don't think anyone can predict what the short term will look like. In the long term, it will be a Syria without Bashar Assad. The longer it takes, the worse it will get.

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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

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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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The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

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He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Long Quotes , Peculiar Quotes

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

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I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Long Quotes , Stories Quotes

It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Long Quotes

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

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The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Life Quotes , Long Quotes

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Long Quotes , Alcohol Quotes

There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Long Quotes

I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.

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Tags : Aaron Tveit Quotes , Long Quotes , Share Quotes

The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Long Quotes

Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.

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