Life Span Quotes - Page 2

• I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani

  Two, Oil, Three

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Law Number L: The average regulation has a life span one-fifth as long as a chimpanzee's and one-tenth as long as a human's, but four times as long as the official's who created it.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Average, Law, Numbers

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• As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Achievement, Nuclear, Normal

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.598, Best Books on

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• In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Emotion, Wave

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.120, New World Library

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• When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.

  Betty Friedan

  Kids, Years, America

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• During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

  Bill Gates

  Dark, Past, Years

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• If you were a person in Rockhampton who is wondering where your next job was coming from, and you had the prospect of one of Australia's largest ever coal projects with a very, very long life span being developed and reviving the regional economy. And you saw the Greens in particular doing their little best to stop it happening.

  George Brandis

  Jobs, Australia, Long

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Life, Animal, Fasting

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• It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Engineering, Justice

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

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• the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.

  Lorrie Moore

  Reading, Writing, Order

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• Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Heart, Giving, Singh

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• Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Running, Country, People

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• ... we've allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyondfifty, sixty, or seventy--all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics--many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.

  Gloria Steinem

  Fear, Epidemics, Self

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.407, Open Road Media

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• We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence... Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational continuity. In contrast to other primates these bonds are not obliterated after sexual maturity.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Maturity, Order, Years

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, putting an end to unjust wars, and so and so.

  Barbara Boxer

  War, Rights, Political

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Life, Nuclear, Weapons

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• Arctic-dwelling Eskimos have no choice but to eat large amounts of meat and animal fat. But let's get our facts straight: according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eskimos also have the highest incidences of heart disease and osteoporosis in the world and, in general, short life spans. Perhaps that is something to consider when we are faced with the choice of what to eat for dinner and unlike Eskimos most of us do have choices.

  Sharon Gannon

  Short Life, Heart, Animal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.

  Stephanie Mills

  Pain, Short Life, Sweat

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

  Andrew Tobias

  Men, Years, Numbers

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.

  Roger Zelazny

  Differences, Long, Shapes

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• Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Love Is, Thinking

  Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

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• Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

  Caroline Knapp

  Mother, Dog, Short Life

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• The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

  Mike McCready

  Average, Years, Long

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• I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

  Steve Madden

  Shoes, Trouble, Natural

  "Milestone: Q&A With Steve Madden". Interview with Neil Weilheimer, footwearnews.com. February 22, 2010.

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• There are many universes, countless universes, and many of them are invisible. We call these the astral planes, but they are as real as this world is and they're filled with beings that have life spans.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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