Anton Chekhov Quotes, Lying Quotes, Years Quotes

Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.

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Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Home Quotes , Years Quotes

Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Lying Quotes , Years Quotes

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Years Quotes , Educated Quotes

When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.

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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

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The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

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I want something else; a different system entirely. One not seen on this earth for thousands of years. If ever. Democratic Womanism. Notice how this word has "man" right in the middle of it? That's one reason I like it. He is right there, front and center. But he is surrounded. I want to vote and work for a way of life that honors the feminine.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

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Tags : A. R. Ammons Quotes , Years Quotes , Imagine Quotes

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , New Year Quotes , Years Quotes

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Life Quotes , Years Quotes

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Years Quotes , Different Quotes

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

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It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator - a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.

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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony. So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Talking Quotes , Years Quotes

We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Years Quotes

That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.

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Tags : A-Trak Quotes , Years Quotes , America Quotes

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

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Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

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Tags : Theodor Herzl Quotes , Talking Quotes , Years Quotes