#lasts

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. ↗

— William Penn

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A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. ↗

— Francis Picabia

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We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer. ↗

— Kelly Ripa

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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

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Muscles come and go; flab lasts. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

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To spend life for something which outlasts it. ↗

— William James

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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