Adam Gopnik Quotes, Long Quotes, World Quotes

American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World

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Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Long Quotes , Independence Quotes

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Long Quotes

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

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Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.

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

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

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But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.

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Do not grow old, no matter how long you live.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Long Quotes , Matter Quotes

God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever. When the vessel will become pure the urge for action coming from within will be a flawless, definitive action. As long as that does not happen one has to minimize one's activities.

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Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Long Quotes , Toil Quotes

The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees confront Implacable winter's long, cross-questioning brunt.

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

Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Long Quotes , Poetry Quotes

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

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So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Long Quotes , Secure Quotes

Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don't act, then the result is very clear. So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.

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Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling.

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I'm a very introverted guy, so I don't need to be around people for as long as someone who's very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se.

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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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An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

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The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

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