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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Doug Coupland

History, Live, Understand

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Theodor Adorno

Live, Writing, Place

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
Thabo Mbeki

Tomorrow, Sun, Purpose

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Life, Career, Working

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.
Tom Stoppard

After, Idea, State

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
Pierre Corneille

Enemy, Sweet, Fate

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch

Love, Women, Men

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.
David Bowie

Amazing, Thought, Strange

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
David Bowie

Writing, Away, Once

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
David Bowie

Music, Nothing, Everything

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
David Herbert Lawrence

Live, Two, Sides

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
Doug Coupland

Place, Found, Goes

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.
Martin Feldstein

Work, Government, Growth

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Russell Baker

Company, Misery, Loves

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
Theodor Adorno

Thinking, Moment, Means

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Wedding, Human, Race

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.
Adele

Hatred, Used, Read

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
Casey Stengel

Put, Wanted, Again

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
Jessica Savitch

Life, Women, Men

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
William Shatner

Computers, Put, Films

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.
William Shatner

Live, Two, Audience

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
Robert Anton Wilson

Alone, Song, Earth

I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel.
Cher

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis

Hero, Knows, Minute

I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer.
Alfred Eisenstaedt

Mind, Eyes, Become

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
Terry Pratchett

God, Home, Medical

The longer you work here, diverse it gets.
Scott Adams

Work, Here, Diverse

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
Lysander Spooner

Government, Honest, Support

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
Maxwell Maltz

Young, Old, Perhaps

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.
Mick Jagger

Care, Thoughtful, Cars

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