Quotes with years-on

Quotes 381 till 400 of 988.

  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Alcee Hastings If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Alfred Kazin If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
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  • Benny Anderson If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait.
    Benny Anderson
    Swedish musician, composer and producer
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  • Brunello Cucinelli If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Alan Cohen If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bill Nye If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Malcolm X If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Beth Gutcheon If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.
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  • Noam Chomsky If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bryan Callen If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Burt Rutan In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Ann Druyan In 1974, I first met Carl. I was 25 years old. I am 51 now.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Bee Wilson In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Erica Jong In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Camillo di Cavour In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.
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