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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

Often, Run, Danger

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain

Education, Run, Deadly

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
Dalai Lama

Difficult, Union, Run

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
Dalai Lama

Between, Alive, Committed

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
Dalai Lama

History, Rich, Culture

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
Mia Hamm

Hard, Down, Stand

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

End, Daily, Depression

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Ronald Reagan

God, Democracy, Cannot

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran

Forget, Play, Hair

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Men, Book

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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell

Sometimes, Door, Late

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
Barack Obama

God, Everything, May

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde

War, Popular, Wicked

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

Far, Action, Less

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Wait, Here

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou

Home, Human, Find

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Happen, Attention, Since

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson

Fear, Live, May

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde

Woman, Her, She

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
Che Guevara

Care, Someone, Else

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

History, Freedom, Few

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis

Adversity, Weather, Devil

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
Ronald Reagan

Best, Yourself, Find

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women, Battle, Rights

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison

Order, Unknown, Senses

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
Audrey Hepburn

Love, Looking, Walk

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

Life, Idea, Next

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. Lewis

Time, Women, Men

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