Barry Long Quotes
The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
Quotes to Explore
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.
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If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
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I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.
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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.
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The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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Commuter - one who spends his lifeIn riding to and from his wife;A man who shaves and takes a trainAnd then rides back to shave again.
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‘…The senior Mr Denham’s,’ he said, with deadly Eastern realism, ‘will perhaps only be better in the grave.
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From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.
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The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.
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On ne peut pleurer pour le monde entier : C'est au-delà des forces humaines. Il faut choisir !
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.
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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
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The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
