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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
Calvin Coolidge

Life, Hurt, Public

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Justice, Enough, Eyes

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Ovid

Women, Eludes, Offered

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
P. J. O'Rourke

Often, Makes, Older

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.
Nick Clegg

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence Darrow

Last, Forever, Shall

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky

End, May, Means

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin

Best, Book, Give

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon

Change, Religion, Nature

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
Jim Carrey

Care, Enjoy, Call

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.
Jim Carrey

Career, Show, Process

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Shall, Pass

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Samuel Butler

Find, Cannot, Shall

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris

Change, Keep, Idea

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
William Butler Yeats

Age, Minds, Healthy

Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch

Character, Simply, Habit

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
Simone Weil

Time, Truth, Through

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Lou Holtz

Him, Try, Anyone

It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who.
Joan Rivers

Sex, Since, Forgotten

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
Rudyard Kipling

Heart, Nothing, After

Life should be great rather than long.
B. R. Ambedkar

Life, Great, Rather

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
Jack Kerouac

Respect, Humility, Mad

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Harriet Tubman

Time, Strength, Fight

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
George Jean Nathan

Girl, May, Pretty

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
Kin Hubbard

Government, Democrats, Ownership

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Henry Miller

Age, Greatest, Everything

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Marie Antoinette

Alone, Mother, Husband

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Hope, Before

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson

Power, Courage, Honesty

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Time, Help

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