Decades Quotes

• Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Women

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• It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

  Glenn Danzig

  Christian, Religious, Freedom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Unique, Fleeting, Shapes

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.1, Best Books on

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• Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Memories, Moving, Self

  FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Jan 09, 2012

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• Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

  Cecelia Ahern

  Life, Running, Coffee

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• Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

  Tom Peters

  Perfection, Excellence, Quality

  Tom Peters, Nancy Austin (1985). “A passion for excellence”

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• We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

  Bill Gates

  Infinite, Bandwidth

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• The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Fleeting, Ephemeral

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.241, Ballantine Books

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• If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people

  Ralph Siu

  People, Reorganization, Ethics

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• For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Birthday, Cake, Numbers

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• I've been living out of a suitcase for over a decade.

  Nikki Glaser

  Suitcases

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• Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

  George Pataki

  Change, Creativity, Character

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• In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

  Marc Benioff

  Years, People, Underestimate

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• There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.

  Tom Vilsack

  America, Growth, Economic

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• There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

  Ian Somerhalder

  People, Twenties, Roaring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

  David Brin

  May, Next, Assumption

  David Brin (1990). “Earth”, Spectra

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• After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles...
  Nature runs on sunlight.
  Nature uses only the energy it needs.
  Nature fits form to function.
  Nature recycles everything.
  Nature rewards cooperation.
  Nature banks on diversity.
  Nature demands local expertise.
  Nature curbs excesses from within.
  Nature taps the power of limits.

  Janine Benyus

  Running, Nature, Law

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• Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but its hard with a kiss.

  Rachel McAdams

  Kissing, Important, Way

  "Rachel McAdams On Working McDonald’s, Screen Tests And Love Scenes", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2008.

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• What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth?

  Mark Weisbrot

  Growth, Democracy, Population

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• I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

  Patti LaBelle

  Real, Performers

  "Patti LaBelle: The People’s Diva". Interview with Damainion Ewell, allhiphop.com. June 1, 2004.

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• The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot be Islam vs. Christianity. That is what the enemies of dialogue want.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Men, Unity, Enemy

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• After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself.

  Gjon Mili

  Done, Want, Feds

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• No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.

  Boris Pasternak

  Kings, War, Men

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• The nineties, ecstatic decade!

  Zadie Smith

  Ecstatic

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• The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Optimism, Alive

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