A Quotes
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“As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.”
Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De
“As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.”
Source: The Brooklyn Follies
“As long as a man has a golden heart, it does not matter whether he has green blood or blue skin!”
“As long as a man has desires there is no end to his transmigration. It is the desires alone that make him take one body after another. There will be rebirth for a man if he has even the desire to eat a piece of candy.”
“As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.”
“As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”
Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals
“As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.”
Source: The Fixer
“As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.”
Source: Jnana Yoga (Part II): The Yoga of Knowledge (Art of Living)
“As long as a person doesn't know what he doesn't know, he doesn't grow”
Source: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated
“As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.”
“As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings
“As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.”
Source: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”
Source: Golden
“As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist.”
“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
“As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows to be true, the feminine impulses and gifts of her psyche continue to be killed off.”
“As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.”
“As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.”
“As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.”
“As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.”
“As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.”
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1824
“As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.”
“As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they're embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools or by our ridiculous trial lawyer culture that other countries find laughable?”
“As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.”
“As long as an angel is not annihilated, it is a devil.”
“As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.”
“As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul) have not gone away, one has not attained vitraag’s (the enlightened one’s) religion in the slightest. The religion of the Enlightened One’s (Vitaraag Dharm) means absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“As long as anti-gay legislation exists in any state, I strongly believe big events such as the Final Four and Super Bowl should not be held in those states' cities.”
“As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.”
Source: Culture and Commitment
“As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.”
“As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense, basic logic and the presentation, I am pretty cool with it.”
“As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.”
“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.”
“As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.”
“As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.”
Source: The Political Writings
“As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.”
“As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.”
“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.”
Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence
“As long as bands are still out there slaving away in the garage and putting out their own records and just pushing the envelope for how songs should be written or how they should be played, punk will never die.”
“As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.”
“As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.”
“As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.”
Source: Bits, Bytes, and Balance Sheets: The New Economic Rules of Engagement in a Wireless World
“As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.”
“As long as children are still getting kicked out of their homes by parents, getting bullied, commuting suicide, et cetera. it's definitely still worth talking about.”
“As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.”
“As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own.”
“As long as Christians follow Christ and have contact with the Holy Spirit, they function as light and salt in the world. However, when Christians become lukewarm and lose contact with Jesus Christ, the light fades and the salt loses its flavor.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account