Decades Quotes - Page 12

• By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Reality, Eyeglasses, Woven

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.143, Penguin

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• I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

  Fiona Shaw

  Hot, Next, Born

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

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• If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'

  Vince Gilligan

  Karma, Girlfriend, Hate

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• Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

  Mona Simpson

  Brother, Father, Men

  "A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs". www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2011.

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• I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

  Li Keqiang

  Mold, Students, Explosions

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• A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Tasks, Management

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.40, Routledge

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• ComicsAlliance asked if I wanted to do some holiday comics using a new layout and I said ‘HELLO, NEVER IN MY NEAR-DECADE OF MAKING COMICS HAVE I EVER DONE THIS, so actually I’m really glad you asked!’

  Ryan North

  Holiday, Done, Hello

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• Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Perfection, People, Greed

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• Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.

  David Duke

  Suicide, Psychosis, Ku Klux Klan

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• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Delicate Life, Tea

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• Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Two

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

  James Fallows

  War, People, Vietnam

  "As We Near the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War" by James Fallows, www.theatlantic.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Lying, Passion, Waiting

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

  Robert Jarvik

  Physicians, Matter, Clear

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyeraki, Maeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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• For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  College, Community, Leader

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

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• In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

  Jim Ryun

  Growing, Next, Facts

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• To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

  Brendan Gill

  Death, Mourning, Ends

  BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

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• A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Lying, Two

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

  Richard Leakey

  Elephants, People, Poaching

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• To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

  Paul Davies

  Taken, Technology, Aliens

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• Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

  Robert Harris

  Tape, Stores, Scales

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• If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

  Freeman Dyson

  Moving, Thinking, Moon

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• Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Persistence, Quality

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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• A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

  Alexander Haig

  Mutual Benefit, Long, Important

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• I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.

  Derek Jarman

  Eye, Wish, Receiving

  Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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