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• To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

  Frank Darabont

  Arbitrary, Film, Artificial

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• I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

  Adrian Belew

  Guitar, Years, Secret

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• The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

  Thomas More

  Distance, Heaven, Way

  Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Henry Neville (1999). “Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines”, p.12, OUP Oxford

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• On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

  Charles Sturt

  House, Emigration, Intention

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.58

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• A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

  Herb Caen

  Dream, Cities, Vision

  Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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• Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

  Henry Knox

  Government, Uprising, Names

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• As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

  Cleveland Amory

  Patience, Cat, Owning A Pet

  Cleveland Amory (1995). “Cleveland Amory's Compleat Cat: Three Volumes in One”, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub

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• We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

  Aristotle

  Anger, Men, Praise

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Children, Pet

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Hands, Genius

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• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Police, Law Enforcement

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.122, Vintage

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• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Uprising, Rebel

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.140

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• You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.843, Wordsworth Editions

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• According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

  Robert Fripp

  Men, Average, Usa

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• What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Government, House

  "Harper appears open to working with Bloc in 2004 CBC interview". Interview with Evan Solomon, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 05, 2008.

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• It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

  Helen Keller

  Civilization, Literature, World

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• Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Lifetime, Whole

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• Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Inspirational, Time, Women

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• There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Dance, Stars

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• The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Being Sad, Risk

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• So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Long, Advisors, My Friends

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Happiness, Yoga

  Title of poem (1942)

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• The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Movie, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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