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• It is a book for manufacturing companies that are fighting desperately for survival and that will go to any length to improve their factories and overcome the obstacles to success. One could even call this book a 'bible' for corporate survival.

  Hiroyuki Hirano

  Book, Fighting, Survival

  Hiroyuki Hirano (2009). “JIT Implementation Manual -- The Complete Guide to Just-In-Time Manufacturing: Volume 1 -- The Just-In-Time Production System”, p.14, CRC Press

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• The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.

  Bob Shacochis

  Letting Go, Fun, Writing

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• Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don't you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side? The answer, so far as I am concerned, is that I do deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side. But I am responsible for the wrongs and atrocities committed by our side. And I am no longer able to participate in the assumption that atrocities committed by remote control are less objectionable than those committed at arm's length. I am most concerned with American obstacles to peace because I am an American.

  Wendell Berry

  War, Atrocities Committed, Asking

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• Perhaps it is to prepare to hear some day the music of the spheres that I am always turning my ears to the music of streams. There is indeed a music in streams, but it is not for the hurried. It has to be loitered by and imagined. Or imagined toward, for it is hardly for men at all. Nature has a patient ear. To her the slowest funeral march sounds like a jig. She is satisfied to have the notes drawn out to the lengths of days or weeks or months. Small variations are acceptable to her, modulations as leisurely as the opening of a flower.

  Wendell Berry

  Flower, Men, Funeral

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.19, Counterpoint

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• Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

  Jules Renard

  Men, Drunk, Too Much

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.6, Tin House Books

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• Do not complain about the length of the road! What will you do when the road finishes? Let it continue!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Complaining

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• For a great willpower, no road has length!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Willpower

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• In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

  Vince Poscente

  Nature, Lakes, Feet

  Vince Poscente (2002). “Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery”, Invinceaility Series

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• One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also runs the risk of setting out in a completely erroneous direction. Surely the important thing isn't the length of our steps, but that the objective is clear.

  Angela Merkel

  Running, Risk, Important

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• I like making sure that I've got a decent haircut, my beard's a decent length. I trim it once a week and that's all I need to do. Also, shoes polished. Just put yourself together properly. It's about self-respect, but it's also about having a bit of respect for the people you're interacting with on a daily basis.

  Patrick Grant

  Shoes, Self, People

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, rollinto heaps, and burn again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can come at the ground between the stumps and charred logs; for a first crop the ashes suffice for manure, and no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid down.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Cutting, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods”, p.12, Graphic Arts Books

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• I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the leastact of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Law, Justice

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Anger, Guilt

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Occupation

  Speech Opposing the War in Iraq at Federal Plaza, delivered 2 October 2002, Chicago, Illinois

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• In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Good Luck

  On War Chapter 1, 21 (p. 86)

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• In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  People, Complaining, Failing

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• A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Democracy, Important, Quality

  "The United States". New York magazine, November 15, 1971.

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• Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

  George Santayana

  Echoes, Vision, Arms

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.131, Library of Alexandria

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• People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a glass of wine or to shoot up heroin or whatever they do, and they talk their heads off, and a year later it comes out in a book, and there follow years of bitter and fruitless litigation, and that is why you should always keep a writer at arm's length.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Wine, Glasses

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• There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Long, Film, Difficult

  Source: screenrant.com

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• And to be fair, most documentaries are half an hour too long, anyway. Let's not kid ourselves. Most movies are an hour too long. I will say that the internet has changed everything in terms of distribution and because of iTunes and other outlets like that, length is no longer something you really think about, in my opinion. It's irrelevant.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Kids, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Sight, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.176, 谷月社

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• Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.

  Bennett Cerf

  Teenager, Book, Home

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• I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Moving, Stories

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• What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

  Denis Diderot

  Order, Perfection, World

  "Book by Denis Diderot". Book by Denis Diderot, 1749.

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