Nikola Tesla Quotes, Sight Quotes, Years Quotes

I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.

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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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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

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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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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Years Quotes , Mind Quotes

Et une fois de plus je m'avan c° ais le long de ces me" mes couloirs, marchant depuis des jours, depuis des mois, depuis des anne es, a' votre rencontre. And one more time, I advanced along these same hallways, walking for days, for months, for years, to meet you.

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Tags : Alain Robbe-Grillet Quotes , Years Quotes , Long Quotes

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Years Quotes , Issues Quotes

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mean Quotes , Years Quotes

In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

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Each year, more people want to become artists.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Artist Quotes , Years Quotes

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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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Years Quotes

Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Years Quotes , Example Quotes

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Years Quotes , America Quotes

If God gives you a few more years, remember, it is not yours. Your time must honor God, your home must honor God, your activity must honor God, and everything you do must honor God.

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Tags : Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes , Home Quotes , Years Quotes

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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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Cells Quotes , Years Quotes

The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Years Quotes , Best Laid Plans Quotes

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Life Quotes , Years Quotes

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

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Tags : Adolf Loos Quotes , Lying Quotes , Years Quotes

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Years Quotes , Waiting Quotes