Quotes with cross-time

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  • Anita Hill Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • V. S. Pritchett Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • James Russell Lowell What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Ted Engstrom What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
    Ted Engstrom
    American Christian leader (1916 - 2006)
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  • Ben Elliot What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Roland Barthes What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Barry Commoner What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Bob Iger What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Anthony Holden What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Thomas Jefferson What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Aldous Huxley What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Aldous Huxley What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Don DeLillo What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
    Falling Man (2011) 73
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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