Voltaire Quotes, Men Quotes, Years Quotes

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Years Quotes , Poetry Quotes

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Years Quotes , White Quotes

By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we first got here. And I'm hopeful we'll build on the progress we've made in the years to come.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Country Quotes , Years Quotes

There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

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Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Years Quotes

Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Christian Quotes , Years Quotes

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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

I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Religious Quotes , Years Quotes

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

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Tags : Al Lewis Quotes , Years Quotes , Medicine Quotes

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

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Tags : A. E. van Vogt Quotes , Science Quotes , Years Quotes

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Years Quotes , Intellectual Quotes

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

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Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Years Quotes , Two Quotes

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

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The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes

Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Years Quotes , Evil Quotes

I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.

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When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Kentucky Quotes , Years Quotes

If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.

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

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I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Years Quotes , Election Quotes