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• If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn.

  Jack Layton

  Country, Media, Years

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• We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Reality, Men, Vanity

  "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson", edited by Linda Lear, (p. 91), 1999.

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• We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson", edited by Linda Lear, (p. 96), 1999.

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• Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn.

  Steve Jobs

  Macs, Tigers

  "Mac's Tiger 'Long Before Longhorn'" by Michael Singer, www.datamation.com. January 11, 2005.

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• The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

  Hannah More

  Rose, Lasts, Enough

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.342

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• 'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

  Thomas Sowell

  Lines, Global Warming, Hysterical

  "Global Warming Swindle". www.creators.com. March 14, 2007.

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• I think Miss Moore was right to cut "The Steeple-Jack" - the poem seems plainer and clearer in its shortened state but she has cut too much... The reader may feel like saying, "Let her do as she pleases with the poem; it's hers, isn't it?" No; it's much too good a poem for that, it long ago became everybody's, and we can protest just as we could if Donatello cut off David's left leg.

  Randall Jarrell

  Cutting, Thinking, Long Ago

  "Poetry and the Age". Book by Randall Jarrell. Chapter: "Her Shield", p. 177, 1953.

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• I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got to Evangeline , kept echoing in my ears: "We're coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don't be babies and start counting the pages." I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.

  Randall Jarrell

  Girl, Dream, Baby

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.

  Randall Jarrell

  Girl, School, Cities

  Randall Jarrell, “Losses”

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• The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, People, Desire

  "The Orson Welles Story". Documentary, 1982.

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• The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

  Evan Esar

  Listening, Stories, Way

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• Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Suffering, World

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.127, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation." That is why 90% of academic film theory is bullshit. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Roger Ebert

  Wise, Long Ago, Editors

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010”, p.583, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.

  Roger Ebert

  Missing, Doubt, Plans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.

  Roger Ebert

  Crush, Girl, Teenage

  Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• If you stay in Beverly Hills too long, you become a Mercedes.

  Robert Redford

  Funny, California, Beverly Hills

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• Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.)
  Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.

  David Gerrold

  Sacrifice, Past, Self

  "The Man Who Folded Himself". Book by David Gerrold, 1973.

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• Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Flower, Hands

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• I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind my wayward heart creates its own misery Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Children, Tired, Heart

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• I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Strong, Writing, Sleep

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2014). “Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• I have spent the last 30 years forming the religious right. I write a letter every week and send a newspaper every month to 200,000 pastors who are broadly called evangelicals, bringing them up to date on what is happening in Washington, in the state capitals, in the culture, and what we need to do about it. And of course I'm criticized for it, and of course I have calculated the positives and the negatives, but I have long been at peace with what I do.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Writing, Years

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• So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a God who is the epitome of both, and by telling yourself that you are created in the Image and Likeness of God, you have given yourself the moral authority to demonstrate both. You love and hate in the name of God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Hate, Believe, Names

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old.

  Henry Clay

  Passion, Expression, Favors

  Henry Clay (1842). “Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, of the Congress of the United States”, p.24

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• The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.

  Victor Borge

  Piano, Firsts, Built

  "The Very Best of Victor Borge". Book by Victor Borge, 1995.

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• You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  "The Zahir". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2005.

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