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Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence
The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those… — Henry David Thoreau
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
If it were possible to transfer the methods of physical or of biological science directly to the study of man, the transfer would long ago… — Unknown Author
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true… — Annie Dillard
I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set… — Muhammad Ali
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. — Joseph Brodsky
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life. — Thomas a Kempis
I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your… — Jean Baudrillard
To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him… — John Selden
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example.… — Mary Baker Eddy
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and… — Samuel Johnson
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the… — Salman Rushdie
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its… — Primo Levi
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in… — Plutarch
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did.… — Hilaire Belloc
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to… — Eleanor Roosevelt
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a… — Emily Perkins
Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream. for all of us today, the battle is in our hands.… — Martin Luther

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