Quotes with all-time

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  • Bernard Levin Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Albert Camus At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Virginia Woolf At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Carol Gilligan At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Arne Duncan At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Mark Caine At all times it is better to have a method.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Aldous Huxley At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • James Baldwin At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Brad D. Smith At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Elizabeth Jennings At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
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  • Edward. E. Cummings At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Gloria Steinem At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m passing the torch. I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bo Burnham At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan At one time he was employed on one of the Yiddish dailies, but lost his job during a political campaign, when he refused to write two editorials advocating the election of two opposing candidates, both to appear in the same issue of the newspaper.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Samuel Johnson At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
    Source: Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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