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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine

Men, Stars, Sea

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley

After, Chance, Themselves

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

Change, Important, Thought

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw

Women, Men, Vote

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Coco Chanel

Men, Children, Everything

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
Muhammad Ali

Black, Made, Free

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Ronald Reagan

Food, Medical, Enough

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health, Tired, Enough

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
John F. Kennedy

Before, Place, Ideas

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe

Experience, Live, Goes

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson

Good, Money, Men

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything, Seems, Stands

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Benjamin Franklin

Sell, Thou, Thy

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil Gibran

Experience, Before, Choose

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
John Lennon

Woman, Matter, Hair

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes

Give, Enough, Place

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Him, Turn, Monster

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

Him, Sun, Short

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
Eminem

Music, Down, Working

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
Joel Osteen

Saying, Enough, Reap

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
Caroline Kennedy

Life, Work, Family

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Hate, Value, Equal

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine

Thinking, Wrong, Appearance

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.
Marilyn Monroe

Nothing, Living, Easy

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.
Marilyn Monroe

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.
Marilyn Monroe

Time, Mother, Find

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost

Live, Social, Left

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Thomas Sowell

Freedom, Government, Saying

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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