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• Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

  Margaret of Valois

  God, Science, Steps

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• The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.

  Allan McNish

  Race, Numbers, Lasts

  "Formula One teams must come together over Bahrain issue" by Allan McNish, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.

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• But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.

  Marietta Holley

  Women, Depth, Goes On

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• It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

  Arthur Helps

  Patience, Endurance, Forbearance

  Sir Arthur Helps (1876). “Realmah”, p.232

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• I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Certain, Situation, Reader

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• After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

  John Henry Newman

  Struggle, Fighting, White

  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.1416, Ignatius Press

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• A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Integrity, Arms, Fool

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.181

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• It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Grace, Mind

  John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.287, Baker Books

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• Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

  Thomas Ken

  Life, Remember, Eternity

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• Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.

  Seneca the Younger

  Quiet, Weary

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• there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. ... As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly - just once too often - when the other longed to be left in peace.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Party, Doubt, Earth

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• Knitting is formed by a series of loops pulled through loops to the end of time or to 'desired length'. By picking up loops and working in the opposite direction you are really picking up the concavities between the loops, and it is sheer unexpected witchcraft that stocking stitch and garter stitch will permit such an anomaly. Be grateful for this and don't expect anymore.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Grateful, Opposites, Knitting

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• The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one's being. The height of the Christian life is adoring Christ, the depth of it loving Him, the breadth of it obeying Him, and the length of it following Him. Everything in the Christian life revolves around Jesus Christ. Simply put, Christianity is Christ.

  Steven J Lawson

  Christian, Jesus, Loving Life

  Steven J. Lawson (2013). “The Kind of Preaching God Blesses”, p.57, Harvest House Publishers

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• It is the great destiny of human science, not to ease man's labors or prolong his life, noble as those ends may be nor to serve the ends of power, but to enable man to walk upright without fear in a world which he at length will understand and which is his home.

  Paul Sears

  Home, Destiny, Men

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• Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Moving, Light, Perfect

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• It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Fall, Men, Principles

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.114

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• There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

  Jimmy Carter

  Two, Pieces, Surprise

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• Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?... We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, May, Might

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “On Reading: From "Walden"”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

  Walter Lippmann

  Mistake, Thinking, Feet

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• If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Mean, Stories

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• The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

  Benjamin Carson

  Jobs, Moving, Hard Work

  "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story". Book by Benjamin Carson, 1990.

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• It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, Cynical, Political

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• Boys can be disgusting. You can't leave us alone for any length of time because we will burn something, blow something up or paint something. We're just obnoxious.

  Tim Allen

  Blow, Boys, Paint

  "Tim Allen Talks LAST MAN STANDING, Classic Sitcoms, Stand-Up, and the Future of the TOY STORY Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 3, 2012.

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• When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.

  Brice Marden

  Long, Movement, Body

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

  Brian Hodge

  Trying, Stories, Firsts

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