Quotes with period

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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Anita Hill During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bernard Lown Every historic period has had its Cassandras. Our era is the first in which prophecies of doom stem from objective scientific analyses.
    A Prescription for Hope
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Blaise Pascal For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
    Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Gates I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
    Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Angela Merkel I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Winston Churchill If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Brendan Fraser If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Bill Maris If you want to invest in early-stage technologies, putting a timeframe on it does behold you to Silicon Valley economics. You've got a certain time period where you have to make the money. And you have to invest that money whether you find good companies or not.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Benedict Wong In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Bill Ackman Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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