Virginia Woolf Quotes, Years Quotes, One Day Quotes

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

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

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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

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Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

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I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

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Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

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The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.

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Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around the world, we will lose. If we're not training engineers to make sure that they are equipped here in this country, then companies won't come here. Those investments are what's going to help to make sure that we continue to lead this world economy not just next year, but 10 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now.

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Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

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May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

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'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.

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The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.

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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

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People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

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It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

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Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

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If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

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We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.

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Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

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