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Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud

Men, Strong, Become

We die only once, and for such a long time.
Moliere

Time, Die, Once

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Win, Lose, Until

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
Joseph Stalin

Power, Real, Rifle

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
Whitney Houston

Succeed, Anyone, Walk

Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler

Life, Tired, Getting

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
Bill Watterson

Dreams, Together, Night

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Marcel Proust

Men, Freedom, Science

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Michelangelo

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell

Madness, Misery, Mankind

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
William Butler Yeats

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer

Serious, Illness, Bother

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Last, Side, Fault

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Sigmund Freud

Life, Real, Him

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. Washington

Place, Moral, Lives

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

True, Last, Fall

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Future, Before, Happens

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Mick Jagger

Yourself, Letting

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

Sunday, Rainy, Themselves

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Age, Great, Past

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
Henry L. Stimson

Life, Trust, Him

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Orison Swett Marden

Work, Quality, Run

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Mind, Heart, Play

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide

Time, Lose, Discover

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
Marco Rubio

Government, Live, Big

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King

Laughter, Down, Wants

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
Orison Swett Marden

Control, Destiny, Become

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Alice Walker

Money, Yourself, Writing

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead

Parents, Lost, Him

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson

Good, Government, Liberty

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