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• It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine when they lack a clear understanding of disease mechanisms, that the deficiencies of the health-care system are most conspicuous. If I were a policy-maker, interested in saving money for health care over the long haul, I would regard it as an act of high prudence to give high priority to a lot more basic research in biologic science.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Medicine, Giving

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far. We will be lucky if we can postpone the search for new technologies for a while, until we have discovered some satisfactory things to do with the extra time.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Extra Time, Lucky

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either.

  Paulo Freire

  Dream, Country, Teenager

  Paulo Freire (2015). “Pedagogy of Indignation”, p.50, Routledge

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• The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.

  Thomas A. Bailey

  Two, Doubt, Acquiescence

  "A Diplomatic History of the American People". Book by Thomas A. Bailey, 7th ed., p. 17, 1940.

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• The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.

  John Jay Chapman

  Religious, Political, Feelings

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Safe, Enormous, Fallen

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• You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

  Leslie Ford

  West, Dough, Democratic

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• The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

  Jean Edward Smith

  War, Italian, Government

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• The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.

  Edith Durham

  Italian, White, Black

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• My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.

  Mary Rodgers

  Mother, Loneliness, Book

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• An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

  Upton Sinclair

  Events, May, Chains

  Upton Sinclair “100%: The Story of a Patriot”, Lulu.com

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• Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at first...but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It's then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on.

  Tahir Shah

  Book, Impact, Blood

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• God keeps giving Himself as long as we bring that into which He can pour Himself. And when we stop bringing, He stops giving.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Giving

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Mercy Of God, Self

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• There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.

  Martin Gore

  Party, Night, People

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• We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.

  Regina Brett

  Dad, Land, Important

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• You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.

  Pete Wentz

  Running, People, Sticks

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• I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.

  Pete Wentz

  Writing, Ideas, World

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• Deciding to get back together with someone is a complicated and difficult decision. Just remember that the person you are getting back together with is the same person who, not long before, looked you in your beautiful face, took full stock of you and all your qualities, and told you that he was no longer in need of your company.

  Greg Behrendt

  Beautiful, Decision, Getting Back Together

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do not even doubt yourself to be Mr. So-and-so, there is little hope. When you refuse to open your eyes, what can you be shown?

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Eye, Doubt, Littles

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• So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

  Karl Marx

  Producers, Capitalist, Standpoint

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Economist”, p.55, VM eBooks

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• So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,— The after-echo of departed years,— And touches all the soul to tears.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Memories, Heart, Past

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Song, Sweet, Heart

  Henry Van Dyke (1927). “Chosen poems”

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• The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sunshine, Unity, Storm

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.349, e-artnow

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• Those that God loves, do not live long.

  George Herbert

  Death, God Love

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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