Carl Sagan Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Years Quotes

You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated.

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After 48 years, I have said nothing.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Years Quotes

Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

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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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Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of it's flattering but, you know, one of the things that I try to remind people of is, is that I was in politics as a state senator operating in obscurity for many years. Before that I was a community organizer working in low income communities in Chicago and nobody knew my name then. And so, having involved myself in public service for a pretty long time without getting too much attention, hopefully I can keep some of the attention that I'm getting now in perspective.

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Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

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I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.

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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Years Quotes , Punishment Quotes

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

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Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Islands Quotes , Years 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

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

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...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

To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Years Quotes , Discovery Quotes

I get nice letters, but really I have no idea. I just try to enthuse people. You've been married for 31 years.

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Tags : Alan Titchmarsh Quotes , Nice Quotes , Years Quotes

If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, [it] could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.

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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

This is my sixth year now. I've never seen this many all-stars in the locker room at the same time.

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Tags : Adrian Wilson Quotes , Stars Quotes , Years Quotes

Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Years Quotes , Forever Quotes

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

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes