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• Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.

  Raymond Williams

  Country, Powerful, Land

  Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.

  D. W. Griffith

  Determination, Hard Work, Directors

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• everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

  Brenda Ueland

  Communication, Writing, Garden

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.

  Bobby Knight

  Guarantees, Towns, Enough

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• For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Law, Association, Causes

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book V, 11, 10,

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• Chiropractic care is the only real, long-lasting relief that I have found for my neck pain due to an old injury.

  James Arness

  Pain, Real, Chiropractic Care

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• Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd Little means to this franchise, city and league. Aside from his stellar play on the field, he helped make the Broncos relevant in the NFL and strengthened the bond between this team and its fans. He has waited a long time for this honor, and I couldn't be happier for him.

  Pat Bowlen

  Team, Mean, Play

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• What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.

  Werner Herzog

  Done, Adequate, Dinosaurs

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

  Max Muller

  Men, Evil, Good Man

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

  Ken Livingstone

  Family, Lamps, Wake Up

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• We go in with eyes wide open and recognize there will be a lot of hard work involved. But we anticipate having success. We feel like we have assembled a great group of people. If we were going to do it any other way, we would have made an announcement a long time ago. We were very diligent.

  Troy Aikman

  Hard Work, Eye, People

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• I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.

  Terry Riley

  Air, Careers, Rainbow

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• With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.

  Richard Ney

  Real, Eye, Race

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• You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.

  Richard Petty

  Thinking, Past, Common Sense

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• Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.

  James Lovelock

  Stars, Fall, Long Ago

  "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth". Book by James Lovelock, 1979.

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• It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Waiting Around, People, Boudoir

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• Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is north/south rather than east/west. Those Eurasian domestic mammals spread southward very slowly in Africa, because they had to adapt to different climate zones and different animal diseases.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Axes, Mammals

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• Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

  Robert Duvall

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• Everybody's still talking about diplomacy and I'm very hopeful that as long as we talk about diplomacy, as long as we're not talking about enforcement measures, sanctions, et cetera, we are on the right track. But we need to accelerate the process.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Talking, Track, Hopeful

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• Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.

  Chris Hadfield

  Success, Journey, Views

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Italian, Hair, Surf

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• So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.

  Sonia Johnson

  Real, Ignorance, Blow

  Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr

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• It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist.

  Kate Jackson

  Time, Artist, Doe

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• The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

  Kenny Loggins

  Letting Go, Running, Good Life

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• All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Years, People, Seven

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