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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William James

Truth, Nothing, Thoughts

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Margaret Thatcher

Mind, Talk, Ministers

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

Great, Enemy, Real

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
Henry Ward Beecher

God, Nothing, Away

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William James

Keep, Devil, Foot

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
Charles Stanley

Alone, Friends, Challenge

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin

Science, Often, Progress

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley

Men, Miserable, Worship

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Love, God

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of.
Nina Hagen

Karma, Care, Changes

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus

Death, Here, Longer

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell

Question, Granted, Healthy

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron

Nature, Feeling, Passion

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour

Politics, Wrong, Left

Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Enough, Lived

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing, Human, Purpose

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell

Food, May, Find

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Soren Kierkegaard

Heart, Die, Since

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot

Good, Failure, Enough

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward

Love, Criticism, Praise

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Harry S. Truman

Almost, President, Police

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
Andy Warhol

Home, Happy, Sure

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman

Music, Marriage, Time

Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo

Crime, Despotism

I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President.
Hillary Clinton

School, End, Law

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
Victor Hugo

Mind, Before, Sight

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci

Time, Enough, Anyone

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill

Good, Freedom, Others

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

Present, Simply, Letter

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley

Him, Enough, Put

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