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It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
Charles M. Schulz

Matter, Sincere

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
E. M. Forster

Book, Through, Tends

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping

Black, Matter, White

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Noam Chomsky

Mars, Amazed, Observer

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot

Heaven, Ignorant, Affection

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris

Done, Short, Matter

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
Chuck Palahniuk

God, Enough, Nobody

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
Chris Lowe

Stupidity, Ego, Arrogance

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin

Children, Parents, Before

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
Neil Armstrong

Remember, Born, Memories

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
Chuck Palahniuk

Care, Book, Check

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
Chuck Palahniuk

Future, Happen, Remember

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Work, Done, Eyes

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Waiting, Perfect, Keep

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth

Music, Heart, After

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Pythagoras

Peace, Health, Men

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams

Love, Children, Heroes

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard

Fun, Keep, Once

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Henry Van Dyke

Living, Soul, Routine

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White

Joy, Run, Laundry

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James Madison

Best, Through, Country

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Julius Caesar

Enough, Both, Lived

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
Samuel Butler

Humble, Remain, Meek

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
George Harrison

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster

Nothing, Run, Feeding

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov

Life, Men, Read

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
Princess Diana

Person, Cannot, Left

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis

Home, Brave, Free

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
Samuel Butler

Money, Enemy, Brain

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