A Quotes
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“As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?... There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns, a point where my strength will begin to wane. Until then, I'll just keep plodding onward, putting one foot in front of the other to the best of my ability. Smiling the entire time.”
Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
“As long as my husband's looking at me, that's all I care about!”
“As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.”
“As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.”
“As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.”
“As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted”
“As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.”
“As long as NATO changes when the world is changing, we will be very important for the security of all our allies, including the United States.”
“As long as Nature is seen as something outside ourselves; frontiered and foreign, separate, it is lost both to us and in us. It follows that to achieve a society in harmony with Nature, we must be guided by respect for it.”
“As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.”
“As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall was no more uncomfortable than the persistence of Rabbit's own childhood in an annex of his brain; but when the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood.”
Source: Rabbit is Rich
“As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.”
Source: You Must Change Your Life
“As long as North Korea continues its provocations, I believe that we will have no choice but to apply additional and strong pressure on it. At the same time, it is also important to send out a message to North Korea that if it decides to denuclearize and to come to the negotiating table, then we are willing to assist them.”
“As long as nothing happens anything is possible.”
Source: The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana
“As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.”
“As long as nuclear weapons exist, there is a risk that they will be used. And the consequences of their use would be catastrophic. This realization has led to increased engagement, not least through the humanitarian initiative. We must now use this broad engagement to garner support and to push for real results in the disarmament field.”
“As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.”
“As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.”
“As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.”
“As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.”
“As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.”
“As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.”
“As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.”
“As long as one completely dwells in the eternal path, the intuition is the basic roadmap to walk toward the enlightenment.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step forward has not yet been taken.”
Source: Ideology and Utopia
“As long as one does not have Knowledge of the Self, his renunciation (tyaag) will give result. And after attaining the Knowledge of the Self, there is no renunciation; there is only a vow (vrat). A vow is that which prevails on its own.”
Source: The Guru and The Disciple
“As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“As long as one feels that he is the doer, he cannot escape from the wheel of births.”
“As long as one finds faults with the world, he won’t be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself!”
“As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.”
Source: The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition
“As long as one has such awareness that, 'I am the doer,' there are rituals. As soon as the awareness that, 'I am the doer' goes away, there is liberation! As long as there is (the belief that), 'I am the doer', there is religion (dharma) and when One becomes free of the state as a doer, there is science (vignan).”
Source: Harmony in Marriage
“As long as one has the awareness that, 'I am the doer,' he has not realized even one fraction of the Self (Atma). The awareness that, 'I am the doer of any of the things,' will not help one to realize the Self.”
Source: The Current Living Tirthankara Shree Simandhar Swami
“As long as one heart still holds on, then hope is never really gone”
“As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.”
“As long as one is following the right way, one should never be concerned about the reproaches of those who like to find faults.”
“As long as one is involved in worldly interactions, there is pleasure of the mind; and after knowing the Self (Soul), there is bliss of the Soul.”
“As long as one is the doer of the actions, there is agnan [all other knowledge other than one’s own true self, wordly knowledge]. Agnan is the cause for the worldly life.”
“As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.”
“As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.”
“As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.”
“As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.”
“As long as one suffers one lives.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“As long as oppression is present in the world, young people need pedagogy that nurtures criticality.”
Source: Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
“As long as our body-mind-heart-spirit connection is active and balanced, we will continue to grow.”
Source: The Unfinished Book About Who We Are
“As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.”
“As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.”
“As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.”
“As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss.”
“As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.”
Source: The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1829
“As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.”