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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. — Charles Caleb Colton
We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism.… — Cesar Chavez
...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts,… — Cesar Chavez
It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order. — Cesar Chavez
Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle. — Cesar Chavez
Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds. — Frank Bruno
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away. — Joseph Wood Krutch
One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the… — Joseph Conrad
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. — Ernest Renan
It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit. — William Dean Howells
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
An art thief is a man who takes pictures. — George Carlin
We're not supposed to mention f***ing in mixed company, but that's exactly where it takes place. — George Carlin
I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then… — George Carlin
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to… — Henry Ward Beecher
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three. — Alexandre Dumas-fils
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action… — Albert Einstein
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose… — Lewis Mumford
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. — Eric Hoffer
Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away — Jim Cramer

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