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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

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We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.

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I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

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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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A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days.

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It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Love Quotes , Years Quotes

If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then have been morally right to have handed Hitler control of one of the most terrible weapons man has ever made? Would not that have been the one way to ensure that the thousand year Reich became exactly that? Would not unilateralism have given to Hitler the world domination he sought?

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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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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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We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.

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The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.

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Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

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Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (...)

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Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

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Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

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Tags : Bob Marley Quotes , Moving Quotes , Years Quotes

The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

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