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The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep. — Murasaki Shikibu
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that… — Henry Ward Beecher
Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering… — Charlotte Gray
Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God… — Dallin H. Oaks
We have to identify everybody that's here, and there's going to be an appropriate discussion in Congress on how to deal with an individual who… — Rick Perry
There are going to be stories of very young kids that were brought to this country at a very young age who don't even speak… — Marco Rubio
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. — Winston Churchill
Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you. — Sun Tzu
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
Total war is the most humane in the long run. — C.S. Lewis
Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. — Alexander Hamilton
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of… — Alexander Hamilton
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no… — Jacob Bronowski
Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade… — Charles Darwin
Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want… — Rachel Maddow
It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.. — Keith Urban
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it… — John Gregory Brown
Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside, but when you… — Peter Levitt
I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!. — Marie Bashkirtseff

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