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'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
George Carlin

Language, English, Shortest

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.
Barack Obama

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler

Best, Liar, Makes

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Dag Hammarskjold

Him, Destiny, Started

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For time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams

Time, Two, Between

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Job, Started, Takes

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard P. Feynman

Nature, Small, Her

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. Somerset Maugham

Love, Lasts, Returned

Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams

Time, Two, Between

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene

Great, Everything, Boring

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.
Ric Flair

May, Space, Line

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce

Home, Yourself, Run

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
Cat Stevens

God, Greatest, Value

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
Henry Van Dyke

Love, Best, Lives

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.
Heidi Klum

Time, Broken, Kids

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Great, Last, Bear

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Charles Handy

Work, Money, Respect

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
Henry Louis Gates

Family, Line, Tree

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love, Trials, Less

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
Dean Kamen

Mistakes, Simple, Dead

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
Rahm Emanuel

Women, Men, History

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.
Jonathan Kozol

Remember, Questions, Answer

The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.
Seann William Scott

Road, Trip, Angeles

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.
Robert Carlyle

Time, Wanted, While

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
Bruce Jackson

Long, America, Prison

To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes.
Jennifer Hudson

Biggest, Notes, Easiest

'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job.
David Schwimmer

End, Job, Single

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.
John Bonham

Time, Long, Night

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.
Michael Symon

Time, Home, Able

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through.
Shannon Miller

Through, Pretty, Tough

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