Lengthy Quotes

• I've had too lengthy a career and coached too many players to make a choice.

  Chuck Daly

  Player, Careers, Choices

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• The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

  Thomas Nagel

  Expansion, Wake Up, World

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• The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Giving, Morality

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• The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

  Andre Maurois

  Happiness, Being Happy, Business

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• To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

  R. C. Sproul

  Party, Past, Talking

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• Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Battle, Disease, Able

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.75, BenBella Books

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• But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

  Wole Soyinka

  Exercise, Companionship, Kind

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• The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Perception, Democracy, World

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• The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

  Edvard Munch

  Spiritual, Ordinary, Diaries

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• When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Consistency, Irritated, Problem

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• And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Happiness, Fear, Sun

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

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• Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom.

  Tim Johnson

  Religious, Government, Views

  "Then there were 3: The Democratic holdouts on same-sex marriage" by Lindsey Boerma, www.cbsnews.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

  William James

  Believe, Science, Two

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Wise, Spiritual, Missing

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• Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Opportunity, Visitors

  Stephen Sondheim, Hudson Talbott, James Lapine (2002). “Into the Woods”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Yeah, well, to hear you talk, most men should come with warning labels. (She lifted her hands up to frame her next statement.) Attention, please, Psycho Alert. Me, he-man, am prone to nasty mood swings, lengthy pouts, and possess the ability to tell a woman the truth about her weight without warning. (Selena)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Swings, Hands

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.5, Macmillan

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• A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."

  James Keller

  Sleep, Judging, Honor

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• Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the most dangerous cultic figures of our times have no such stabilizing context of tradition, lineage or transmission, but are self-proclaimed gurus who sway their followers through their charismatic talents. . . .

  John Welwood

  Teacher, Self, Discipline

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• Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Hard Work, Worry

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• The teaching process is lengthy because there are many, many states of mind to go through. And in each state of mind there is a different aggregate of self to be explored.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Self

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• The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

  Harold H. Greene

  Numbers, Government, Law

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• I saw a few lines from a few, there were hundreds of them, all [Adolf Hitler] letters and [Eva Braun] replies written on carbon paper. I just saw that her letters to him were lengthy, his were much shorter. I wouldn't intrude on their privacy and I had given her my word.

  Gretl Braun

  Paper, Lines, Letters

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• Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.

  Boris Spassky

  Struggle, Waiting, Chess

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• We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

  Thomas Keating

  Humanity, Brain, Needs

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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