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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.»
«Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied»
«For somehow, not only at Christmas, but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you.»
«A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.»
«Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.»
«An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.»
«Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.»
«He wondered what the mans name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil at heart, or what lies or threats had lead him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really have rather stayed there in peace»
«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.»
«A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace»

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