Mark Twain Quotes, Years Quotes, Two Quotes

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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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Years Quotes , Essence Quotes

I had the honor to meet Geraldine Ferraro on a few occasions over the years at the DNC and what struck me was how she managed to be both gutsy and graceful at the same time. Without a doubt she was a trailblazer who not only stepped outside the box but who dared to redefine it. I always left her presence with the sense that she truly knew what she was talking about but that she never felt the need to browbeat you with it - instead she inspired people to listen and then act, and to me thats the hallmark of a true leader.

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Tags : Adrienne Maloof Quotes , Talking Quotes , Years Quotes

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , Years Quotes

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Change Quotes , Years Quotes

I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Years Quotes

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Years Quotes , May Quotes

Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Years Quotes , Golden Years Quotes

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Years Quotes , Soul Quotes

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

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I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Years Quotes

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Years Quotes , Names Quotes

To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

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Tags : Adrian Younge Quotes , Fall Quotes , Years Quotes

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

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Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Independent Quotes , Years Quotes

We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?

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Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Heart Quotes , Years Quotes

I'm doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I've been preparing for half a year. I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there - any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog. I'm just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Art Quotes , Years Quotes