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«Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.»
Author: Alfred Whitney Griswold
(Educator)
| About:
Books,
Ideas
| Keywords:
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«Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.»
Author: Bill Moyers
| Keywords:
allows, efficient, forms of government, in the long run, long run, saving, saving grace, The Long Run
«Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood /for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.»
Author: Graham Greene
| Keywords:
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«Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.»
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
in the long run, long run, overtaken, overtakes, overtaking, The Long Run
«If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
etc., etc, in the long run, long run, orderly, short run, The Long Run
«Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
alike, decisive, decisive factor, factor, factor in, individual, in the long run, long run, nations, The Long, The Long Run
«Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
bold, exposure, fearful, in the long run, long run, outright, safer, The Long Run
«Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
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«A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
in the long run, Just War, long run, Long War, prosperous, The Long, The Long Run
«All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
clarified, clarifies, clarifying, in the long run, long run, The Long Run
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