Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Years Quotes

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

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The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

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It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

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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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I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

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I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

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He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

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

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Spring Quotes , Years Quotes

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

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And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Recovery Quotes , Years Quotes

One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.

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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Spring Quotes , Years Quotes

Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Children Quotes , Years Quotes

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes

This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.

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I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

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Tags : Alan Hovhaness Quotes , Years Quotes , Childhood Quotes

It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

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Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Years Quotes , Weather Quotes

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

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