Alan Dundes Quotes, Years Quotes, Identity Quotes

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

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We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Believe Quotes , Years Quotes

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Oil Quotes , Years Quotes

God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Years Quotes

If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

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When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Mean Quotes , Years Quotes

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Years Quotes , Matrimony Quotes

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Children Quotes , Years Quotes

We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Past Quotes , Years Quotes

He tried to fool the United Nations, and did for 12 years, by hiding these weapons. And so, it's going to take time to find them. But we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them, or hid them, we're going to find out the truth.

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I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Years Quotes , Shy Quotes

No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit.

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Tags : Theodore Kaczynski Quotes , Memories Quotes , Years Quotes

And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Years Quotes , Thought Provoking Quotes

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

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

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Years Quotes , Mind Quotes

Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Writing Quotes , Years Quotes

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Years Quotes , Soul Quotes

Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Years Quotes , Silence Quotes

In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.

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