Quotes with years-on

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  • Barry Lam The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William James The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Barry Commoner The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barbra Streisand The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bono The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie The most useless are those who never change through the years.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Bram Stoker The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
    Dracula (1897)
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Caitlin Fitzgerald The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
    Caitlin Fitzgerald
    American actress and filmmaker
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Al Unser The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.
    Al Unser
    American automobile racing driver (1939 - )
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  • Ben Stein The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Owen Davies The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
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  • Angela Merkel The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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