#prolong

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. ↗

— George Orwell

#books #constantly #exceptionally #exhausting #feeling

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#cancer #cured #declared #had #i

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#history #human #human history #page #prolonged

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

— Sun Tzu

#instance #nation #prolonged #warfare

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

— Lord Byron

#certain #desire #life #prolongs #tis

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

#behave #got #helpful #human #human race

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions. ↗

— James Grant

#life #misplaced #prolongs #recessions #sustains

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

— Tom Robbins

#how #prolong #question #to be or not to be

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

#consequences #country #enormous #global #horrendous