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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! -- Aristophanes
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. -- Heraclitus
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. -- Sun Tzu
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry. -- Derek Bok
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. -- Franklin Pierce
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. -- Alan Greenspan
They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices. -- Toshihiko Fukui
In pursuing reform, we have to navigate uncharted waters. We may also have to confront protracted problems because we will have to shake up vested interests. -- Li Keqiang
The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations. -- Henry Villard
A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites. -- Hilary Rosen
People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt. -- Daniel Kahneman
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal. -- James Wolcott
One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends. -- Christopher Knight
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. -- Alban Berg
If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight. -- Michael Specter
I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee. -- Edmund White
Life protracted is protracted woe. -- Samuel Johnson
Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral. -- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party. -- Don Henley
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted. -- Sun Tzu
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe. -- Samuel Johnson
Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence. -- Matthew Hayden
I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult. -- David Gordon Green
We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers. -- Jared Bernstein
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly. -- Stefan Zweig
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted. -- John Ruskin
The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream. -- William James
The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery. -- George Will
Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty. -- Hugh Prather
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form. -- Joris-Karl Huysmans
How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving fatherly intelligence, watching, guiding and protecting humanity, is to me amazing. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands for higher wages and reiterated credit expansion; in short, protracted inflation. -- Ludwig von Mises

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