Nikola Tesla Quotes, Race Quotes, Years Quotes

I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Years Quotes , Religion Quotes

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Determination Quotes , Years Quotes

Because He came to earth, we have a perfect example to follow. As we strive to become more like Him, we will have joy and happiness in our lives and peace each day of the year. It is His example which, if followed, stirs within us more kindness and love, more respect and concern for others.

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I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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

I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Years Quotes

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Years Quotes , Twenties Quotes

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Time Quotes , Years Quotes

Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Hate Quotes , Years Quotes

We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Country Quotes , Years Quotes

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

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Tags : Aaron Peirsol Quotes , Years Quotes , Stuff Quotes

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

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

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

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

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Years Quotes

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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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Religious Quotes , Years Quotes

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Years Quotes , Insanity Quotes