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Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

- Homer
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It`s an Iraq-driven market, unfortunately. And the longer this lingers, the more detrimental it is to the economy and earnings.

- Robert Phillips

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

- A.J. Davis

A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance.

- Aharon Appelfeld

What lingers from the parent`s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

- Andrew Jacobs

It`s very sad. It`s very sad, ... At the very beginning I think this is a story about a man (trying to) carry on his life after he broke up with the woman he loves. And he tries to change. He tries to forget the past. He tries to live like a new man. He thinks he`s changed entirely, he sees things, he acts differently, but deep down inside him I think he still lingers with the past and that`s sad.

- Ann Powers

The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.

- Irving Berlin

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

- A.J. Davis

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

- Frederick Seitz