#prolonged

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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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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Prolonged endurance tames the bold. ↗

— Lord Byron

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I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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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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The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock. ↗

— Allen Klein

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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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