Jane Austen Quotes, Reading Quotes, Years Quotes

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

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We need to throw the resources at this that are necessary. But like I say, we are not spending money. I mean, if we buy these assets intelligently, the United States Treasury will make money. I mean, it's borrowing money. It's just a few percent a year.

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Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

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Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

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I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

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My sister is 4 years older than me and I've always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

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I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

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There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Years Quotes

If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.

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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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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

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Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

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An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

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You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

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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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At the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year - 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me. These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.

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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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I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.

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Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

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