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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless. — Pearl S. Buck
I say, without characters, fame lives long. — William Shakespeare
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its… — Loren Eiseley
You won't get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock… — Ronald Reagan
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and… — Marcel Proust
As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot. — Ray Kroc
You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed. — Yanni
Before we can count we are taught to be grateful for what others do. As we are broken open by our experience, we begin to… — Mark Nepo
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast… — Saint Augustine
In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances,… — Thomas Jefferson
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until… — Johannes Kepler
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as… — James Madison
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human… — Alexander Hamilton
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form… — Ambrose Bierce
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long… — John Ruskin
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the… — Thomas Jefferson
Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.... — Mary Mapes Dodge
You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But… — Celia Cruz
If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only… — Rajneesh

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