Years Quotes - Page 28

• I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

  Carey Mulligan

  Niece, Thinking, London

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• It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you
  Because you are always so dear
  You are so dear no matter the year
  But all throughout each day of the year
  There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you
  could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.

  George Orwell

  Niece, Feelings, Bishops

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• Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

  Harpo Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  "Harpo Speaks!".

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• I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.

  Mick Jagger

  America, Funny Money, Taxes

  "Time is on our side: A look back at the Rolling Stones". www.interviewmagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money. Right now the value is in non-callable bonds. Most bonds are callable so when they start going up in price, the debtor calls them away from you. But the non-callable bonds, especially those non-callable for 25-30 years, can go way up in price if interest rates go way down.

  John Templeton

  Ocean, Optimistic, Debtors

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• In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me to become more and more humble because statistics showed that when I advised a client to buy one stock to replace another, about one-third of the time the client would have done better to ignore my advice. In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

  John Templeton

  Humble, Optimistic, Humility

  "Sir John Templeton: Mixing Science, Religion, and Humility" by T George Harris, sirjohntempleton.org. September 01, 2001.

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• Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds.

  Janet Morris

  Responsibility, Destiny, World

  Janet Morris (1989). “Tempus Unbound”, Pocket Books

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• We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Wall, Father

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

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• This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.

  Barack Obama

  Safe Haven, Air, Support

  "Obama Declares War on Syria". Interview with Mike Whitney, www.counterpunch.org. September 12, 2014.

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• In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

  Joan Didion

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 05, 2011

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• There is a streetlight in front of Soo Yeon's house. From there to home, it takes 280 steps. If we have been walking away from each other for 14 years, how many steps will it take to get back? If she doesn't come even if I wait, that doesn't mean that she abandoned me.. it means she is on her way.

  Ha Jung-woo

  Drama, Home, Mean

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• I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

  Mike Easley

  Believe, Sunset, Afterlife

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• Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Dream, Racism, Challenges

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• I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.

  James Rebhorn

  Mother, Memories, Mean

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• My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.

  Dudley R. Herschbach

  Stars, Science, Night

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• The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.

  Jeremiah P. Ostriker

  Science, Discrepancies Between, Growth

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• Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  People, Advice, Needs

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• The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

  C. Wright Mills

  Fate, Best Year, Corporations

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, a deep content, another friend.

  Arch Ward

  Friendship, New Year, Dream

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• No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

  Kodo Sawaki

  Honesty, Special, Matter

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• It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Death, Cutting, Science

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• It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Book, Science, Egypt

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• [S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.

  Francis William Aston

  Science, Light, Air

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• One hundred years ago, if someone said, 'damn,' people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once upon a time when a secret was revealed, people paid an enormous amount of attention to it.

  Paul Levinson

  People, Once Upon A Time, Secret

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• I tell [medical students] that they are the luckiest persons on earth to be in medical school, and to forget all this worry about H.M.O.'s and keep your eye on helping the patient. It's the best time ever to be a doctor because you can heal and treat conditions that were untreatable even a couple of years ago.

  Joseph Murray

  Couple, School, Eye

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