Alban Berg

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.

Austrian Composer

Benjamin Wittes

We should never again have an attorney general capable of saying virtually nothing as the law of major intelligence programs and the integrity of his department's work in overseeing these programs are assailed over a protracted period of time.

American Journalist

James Wolcott

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.

American Critic

Heraclitus

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.

Greek Philosopher

Li Keqiang

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.

Chinese Politician

Christopher Buckley

Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.

American Novelist

Alan Greenspan

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

American Economist

Franklin Pierce

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

American President

Alexis de Tocqueville

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

French Historian

Sun Tzu

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Chinese Philosopher

Often implies frustration or difficulty due to the extended length of time.

Negative Connotation

Can suggest that someone is impatient with the duration of an event.

Impatience Implied

Use it to emphasize that something takes more time than necessary or expected.

Emphasize Duration

Indicates a deliberate action to make something last longer, not accidental.

Intentional Action

Often used to criticize actions that delay reaching a goal or resolution.

Impedes Progress

May be used to describe strategic delays in negotiations or processes.

Strategic Delays

 Benign advice -- now, profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in a revolution. And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, because the universities design the system in their image. If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance.

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 It's clear that international financial institutions should have flexibility in order to be able to invest more massively in support to these countries. We need to combine all the instruments and to understand that today, in protracted situations, at a certain moment, that it doesn't make sense anymore to make a distinction

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 they built social systems, they built technologies. They built ways to manage this place and to manage it remarkably over a protracted period of time. And every moment any one of us stands on a stage as Australians, here or abroad, we carry with us a privilege and a responsibility because of that history.

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 "He ended it two years after taking office. Meanwhile, his campaign had sabotaged the previous president's peace talks, urging the South Vietnamese government to hold out for supposedly better terms, which, I might add, didn't materialize. So, he protracted the war for four years,

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 to revolutionize the British Parliament. That was not my intention. I was just making these requests as part of research for my first book. But it ended up in this very long, protracted legal battle and there I was after five years fighting against Parliament

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 And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance. And the consequence is that many highly-talented,

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 that I really loved and I wouldn't want to protracted death on a bed somewhere in the hospital I'd want to fall off or you know fall over halfway through a show and the audience think think that it's part of the show and the grounded

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 of the protracted adventure spread out like a map and bathed in soft full moonlight that night and with that scene in front of me it was quite easy to realize that the price of life is death and that so long as a payment be made

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 And that was her toy, and she'd take it swimming and it it just absolutely hated water. It was just this protracted awful experience for it going in the water. And all it wants to do is get onto her head.

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 They even arrived at answers, such as myths, that dominated their lives, yet bore almost no resemblance to the truth. The tragedy of that protracted stagnation