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Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.
Norman Wisdom
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It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.


Kim Basinger
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.


Irwin Corey
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There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.
Tom Shadyac
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.


Heraclitus
No matter the risks we take, we always consider the end to be too soon, even though in life, more than anything else, quality should be more important than quantity.
Alex Honnold
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Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot
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In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.


Sharad Pawar
You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not held to account, and all the other companies in America are allowed to fail. You can't have equal justice under law and too big to fail.
Eric Schneiderman
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If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns.
Grover Norquist
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While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect and expect equality.
Donna Brazile
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
Robert Smithson
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It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.


LeVar Burton
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You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.
Glenn Danzig
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I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
Samantha Bond
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Frank Herbert
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.


Felix Frankfurter
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Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.


Arnold Schwarzenegger
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When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.


Helen Thomas