Quotes with period

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  • A. P. Herbert The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Barry Ritholtz The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bobby Seale The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bruce Coville The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Cat Stevens The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Adam Ferguson The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Billy Beane The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • H Broun The most profilic period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
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  • Baba Kalyani The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Frederick Frieseke The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.
    Frederick Frieseke
    American-born French painter (1874 - 1939)
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  • Samuel Butler The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • E. B. White There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Pearl Bailey There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Jean Cocteau There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Burt Rutan There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Don Delillo There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Ben Stein There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
    On his points of making Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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