Mark Twain Quotes, Years Quotes, Insanity Quotes

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Years Quotes , Two Quotes

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

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There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores. Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

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You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Years Quotes

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

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If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

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Tags : Al Davis Quotes , Years Quotes , Games Quotes

The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Years Quotes , Silence Quotes

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Years Quotes , Two Quotes

Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Past Quotes , Years Quotes

I marched with you in the streets of Chicago to meet our immigration challenge. I fought with you in the Senate for comprehensive immigration reform. And I will make it a top priority in my first year as President.

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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

For years, I have been looking for a way to look at the whole global environmental situation, which I have the privilege and burden of covering. And I wanted to give people a way to do something about it.

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Tags : Alan Weisman Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , War Quotes , Years Quotes

Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Fire Quotes , Years Quotes