#prolong

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. ↗

— William J. Mayo

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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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