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How long a time lies in one little word?

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.

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The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.

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My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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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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Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

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What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

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I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

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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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A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

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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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When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.

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So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success.

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But herein lies the rub: Christianity has been on a long-term trend of decline in every Western cultural context that we can identify.

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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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