Long Runs Quotes - Page 7

• I see country music, I see people who take care of their own. You've got 75 year-old guys on the road. That's what I was put here to do, y'know, so I wanna make sure I surround myself with people who are gonna take care of me. 'Cause I'm in it for the long run.

  Neil Young

  Country, Running, Years

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• In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

  Henry James

  Running, Long, Credit

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.13592, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

  Jean Cocteau

  Running, Dog, Knowing

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Book, Long

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

  William Ellery Channing

  Running, Long, Truth Is

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Remarks on the slavery question: in a letter to Jonathan Phillips, esq”, p.4

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• [U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Running, Self, Long

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• Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international trade.

  Greg Mankiw

  Running, Jobs, Long

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• All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?

  Max Lucado

  Running, Horse, Blessing

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• The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Cutting, Cities

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• Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle.

  Dick Morris

  Country, Running, Retirement

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• Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce the incentives to work and to save both of those who receive it and of those who are forced to pay it. It may be said, in fact, that practically every measure that governments take with the ostensible object of 'helping the poor' has the long-run effect of doing the opposite.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Running, Government, Hands

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• Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.

  David Walker

  Running, Government, Long

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• Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.

  Raymond C. Hoiles

  Running, Long, Tools

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• In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Long, Liberty

  National Endowment for Democracy Address on the Middle East, delivered 6 November 2003, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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• For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.

  J. I. Packer

  Running, Thinking, Indulge In

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.126, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• God created us in joy and created us for joy, and in the long run not all the darkness there is in the world and in ourselves can separate us finally from that joy, because whatever else it means to say that God created us in His image, I think it means that even when we cannot believe in Him, even when we feel most spiritually bankrupt and deserted by Him, His mark is deep within us. We have God's joy in our blood.

  Frederick Buechner

  Running, Believe, Mean

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• In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.

  Galileo Galilei

  Running, Men, Long

  "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems". Book by Galileo Galilei (p. 322), 1632.

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• In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Running, Differences, Long

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• Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Long, Cost

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• Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Running, Work, Long

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• Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Success, Running, What Matters

  "Success Built to Last: Creating A Life That Matters". Book by Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson, 2006.

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• Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

  Jane Fonda

  Running, Women, Long

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• If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Running, Math, Long

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• If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Character, Successful

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run.

  Aldo Leopold

  Running, Yield, Long

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.165, Library of America

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