Quotes with periods

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  • Ben Bernanke Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Guy Debord Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Barney Frank The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
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  • Aaron Klug The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Hermann Broch The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
    Hermann Broch
    Austrian writer (1886 - 1951)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki There are periods when you feel really good. You feel the ball is bigger. The court is larger. You feel like you can't miss. And then there are periods when you feel, 'OK, I'm not feeling great.' But I still need to try to find a way to win.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Camilla Luddington There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
    Camilla Luddington
    British-American actress (1983 - )
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  • Albert Camus Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ovid What is without periods of rest will not endure.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Marcelene Cox When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Brad Feld While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Warren Buffett You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Aaron Stanford You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Peace: a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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