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My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.
Carnie Wilson

Best, Husband, Fight

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La Fontaine

Men, Live, Judging

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
Eminem

Keep, Making, Seriously

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Her, She

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome

Friend, Found, Kept

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Run, Call

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
George Carlin

Time, Death, Small

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
Mae West

Find, Else, Keep

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Hide, Exists

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard

Time, Friend, Old

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Happiness, Live, Fight

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Francis Quarles

Patience, Anger, Him

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
Bill Cosby

Two, Proud, American

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire

Continue, Commit, Atrocities

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw

Politics, Car, Mind

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw

Cannot, Highest, Climb

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
Mitch Hedberg

Days, Ten, Slept

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Noel Coward

Taken, Annoy, Walks

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Steve Jobs

Time, Technology, Sorry

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Character, Individual

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
Cavett Robert

Good, Character, After

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert Hubbard

Example, Private, Theirs

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie

Life, Humility, Lesson

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, May, Happen

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Power, Everything, Free

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
Barack Obama

Home, Care, Fight

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
Barack Obama

Education, May, Before

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
Steve Jobs

Faith, Work, Mean

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Democracy, Remember, Soon

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