Quotes with sun-times

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  • Bjorn Lomborg There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Alighieri Dante There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Mark Twain There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Beth Ditto There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Browne There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Ben Roethlisberger There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
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  • Bill Kristol There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • George Borrow There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Bill Murray There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Bob Filner These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Thomas Paine These are the times that try men's souls.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Abigail Adams These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
    Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Alexander Cockburn They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Laurence Binyen They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
    We shall remember them.
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