No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force. -Gamal Abdel Nasser

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I met Peter O'Toole for the first time at Dad's memorial service because my Dad didn't hang around with people like that when we were around. We didn't grow up with Richard Burton coming around to tea. - Jared Harris

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So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

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As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.

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I have an attention span that's as long as it has to be. -Donald Trump

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If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

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I'm not one of those people who had a burning passion for 'Peter Pan' all my life. Although I can't remember a time when I didn't know the story, I didn't carry around with me an ambition to one day write the sequel. - Geraldine McCaughrean

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All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.— Barbara Bush

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