Long Quotes
22418 quotes by 10256 authors
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I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it.
— Muhammad Ali
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We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over…
— Freeman Dyson
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Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he…
— Karl Popper
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by…
— Adam Sedgwick
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In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one…
— Richard Lindzen
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Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a…
— Al Gore
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First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and…
— David Miliband
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Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race
— Tony Blair
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I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits,…
— Gary Becker
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What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not…
— Stephen King
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Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
— Frontinus
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Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.
— Confucius
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Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
— Richard Crashaw
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If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.
— Davies Gilbert
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I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said,…
— Oliver Stone
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I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible,…
— Jose Mujica
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From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So when a president appears who…
— Jose Mujica
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Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing…
— Unknown Author
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Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of…
— Barack Obama
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