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Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days. ↗

— Jane Grey

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It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing. ↗

— Ruth Handler

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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made. ↗

— Barbara Broccoli

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I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

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You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power. ↗

— Max von Laue

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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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