“ There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. ”
- Hodding Carter- Copy
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“ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. ”
- Judith Anderson- Copy
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“ Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. ”
- Andrew Jackson- Copy
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“ We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. ”
- James Freeman Clarke- Copy
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“ To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully. ”
- Bill Cosby- Copy
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“ The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart. ”
- J. B. Priestley- Copy
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“ God guard me from those thoughts men thinkIn the mind alone;He that sings a lasting songThinks in a marrow-bone. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. ”
- Eleanor Roosevelt- Copy
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“ All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland. ”
- Tony Blair- Copy
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“ Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ I'm not a Sundance guy either. I've never had applause lasting over two minutes in my life but we had a 17-minute standing ovation. ”
- Robert Evans- Copy
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“ We believe that the role that Japan has played provides a solid basis for its assumption of permanent membership on the Security Council. ”
- Junichiro Koizumi- Copy
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“ I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves. ”
- Dennis Potter- Copy
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“ A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting. ”
- Bill Moyers- Copy
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“ To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. ”
- Ludwig Mises- Copy
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“ Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell. ”
- T. C. Douglas- Copy
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“ Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ Like PACE, we at Learning Care Group are committed to creating educational environments that inspire a lifelong love of learning. High quality early educational experiences can have a lasting positive impact on students, and it is up to everyone in the early education field to see we make the most of the important role that we play. ”
- Richard Cohen- Copy
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“ The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children. ”
- Charles Bukowski- Copy
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“ All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks but seldom changes the way the world works. Lasting historical change comes not through tidal waves but through the irresistible creeping tide. ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
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