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“Ellen Langer’s work has been an inspiration to me for years. Counterclockwise, her latest book, will change the way you think about your health – for the better. It’s simply fabulous.”

Thinking Way Years Has Beens Book Inspiration Fabulous

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Hemingway always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.”

Years May Has Beens Used Stuff Mistake Including Being True Fifty Great Mistakes

Author:John Dos Passos

“In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had crowned with glory some of the preceding years it has only been from the banishment of all external force against which the struggle had been maintained. The shout of victory has been superseded by the expulsion of the enemy over whom it could have been achieved.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Force Causes Enemy Struggle Victory Glory Independence Triumph Could Have Been Splendid Hemisphere Expulsion Banishment External Forces

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.”

Years Mind Has Beens Certain Song Natural Written Continuity

Author:Elvis Costello

“When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.”

Writing Years Has Beens Made Certain Effort Comfortable Areas Nervous Avoided

Author:Merrill Markoe

“I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.”

Should Years Has Beens Knowing Havens Very Good Scripts Managers Fortunate Turned Down

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province of religion and philosophy. Fifty or something years ago, however, it became part of science.”

Years Humans Has Beens Philosophy Universe Years Ago Dawn Fifty Human History Provinces

Author:Paul Davies

“It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, which could be detected from a long way away. One assumes that a very advanced civilization that has been around maybe millions and millions of years would have an even bigger footprint that might extend beyond its planet to its immediate astronomical environment.”

Way Years Long Has Beens Might Remember Term Millions Technology Environment Example Planets Civilization Bigger Assuming Leaving Global Warming Long Way Footprint Advanced Civilization

Author:Paul Davies

“Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.”

Knows Years Has Beens Father Leader Movement Environmental Conservation

Author:Edward Norton

“It's hard to measure success when we're dealing with between 500 and 5,000 years of patriarchy depending on which continent we sit, so I would say feminism has been successful and we have a huge distance to go, huge.”

Years Has Beens Hard Successful Feminism Huge Distance Continents Patriarchy Measure Of Success

Author:Gloria Steinem

“In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.”

Ifs Years Children Has Beens Lasts Goal Cities Car Be Good Bicycle Mobility Tricycles

Author:Enrique Penalosa

“I never heard a wood thrush until I was a grown man, though I must have been surrounded by them every spring. Each year I discover new sights and sounds to teach me how blind and deaf I must still be.”

Men Years Has Beens Stills Sound Teach Heard Spring Sight Blind Woods Deaf Grown Man Sight And Sound Thrush

Author:Louis J. Halle

“We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.”

Years Humans Has Beens Father Nations Generations Blood Civilization Years Ago Paid Granted Dawn Our Father Price Human Civilization

Author:Menachem Begin

“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Men Years Mind Has Beens Made Political Life Is Given Opinion Principles Five Subjects Circumstances Years Ago Twenties Five Years Twenty Five Opportunist Political Opinions

Author:A. P. Herbert

“There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!”

Years Littles Has Beens Ends Earth Waiting Billions Advise

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.”

People Knows Years Has Beens Design Backgrounds Equipment

Author:Lance Armstrong

“Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.”

Years Wells Has Beens Secret Known Musical Well Known

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“So a war begins. Into a peace-time life, comes an announcement, a threat. A bomb drops somewhere, potential traitors are whisked off quietly to prison. And for some time, days, months, a year perhaps, life has a peace-time quality, into which war-like events intrude. But when a war has been going on for a long time, life is all war, every event has the quality of war, nothing of peace remains.”

Years Long Has Beens War Life Is Quality Events Months Long Time Remains Prison Threat Bombs Traitor Announcements

Book:The Four-Gated City

Source: The Four-Gated City

“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.”

Ifs Feels Years Has Beens I Can Play Pain Lasts Games Fun Poor Stage Produce Baseball Clubs Managers Last Year Ache Teammate Chores

Author:Joe DiMaggio

“We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.”

Thinking Men World Years Long Has Beens Helping Problem Earth Lost Term Millions Tomorrow Impatient Lost Faith

Author:Rachel Carson

“That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting If these things anger you.”

Ifs Men Years Has Beens America Known Accepting Sun Angry Historical Corruption Setting Settings Empires Republic Falsehood Publish Nothing New

Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

“Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.”

People Years Has Beens Whole Reality Careers Building Golden Educated Covered Retirement Ivy Tenure Retirement Years

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.”

People Way Years Wells Has Beens States Beautiful United Attitude United States Promise Benefits Vote Victim Valuable Lawyer Fraud Valuable Things

Author:Shirley Chisholm

“Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.”

Years Has Beens Known Cost Twenties Gentleman Forty Pounds Cheated

Book:Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways

Source: Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways

“God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."”

“Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.”

Years Has Beens Dangerous Track Heavy Yesterday Weary Beaten Calamity Milestone

Book:Proust

Source: Proust

“War is a culture, bellicosity is addictive, defeat for a community that imagines itself to be history's eternal victim can be as intoxicating as victory. How long will it take for the Serbs to realize that the Milosevic years have been an unmitigated disaster for Serbia, the net result of Milosevic's policies being the economic and cultural ruin of the entire region, including Serbia, for several generations? Alas, one thing we can be sure of, that will not happen soon.”

Years Long Has Beens War Happens Culture Realizing Community Results Imagine Generations One Thing Economic Policy Victory Eternal Victim Including Defeat Disaster Ruins Regions Alas Serbia

Author:Susan Sontag

“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.”

“Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.”

Writing Years Has Beens Facts President Novel Pieces Wickedness Accused Crude Prophetic Futuristic Satirist Anti-american President Reagan

Book:Conversations with Philip Roth

Source: Conversations with Philip Roth

“The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.”

Years Has Beens Government Used Leader West Phrases Recessions Unclear

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.”

People Knows Years Wells Persons Has Beens Stills Might Three Numbers Millions Support Greater Benefits Argument Method Good People Murderer Lingering Cannibalism

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.”

Years Mean Has Beens Today Movement Ultimate Aim British Strikes Circles Propaganda Labour Labour Movement

Author:Friedrich Engels

“My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.”

Years Persons Has Beens Made Facts Today Lasts Simple Results Changed My Family Stranger Feds Eleven Changed My Life Life Has Changed

Author:Tony Robbins

“It's hard for me to believe that it [World Trade Center Building 7] came down by itself... Twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us.”

People World Way Years Believe Looks Has Beens Hard Done Government Today Building Twenties Trade Assassination World Trade World Trade Center

Author:Andrew Napolitano

“Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.”

Years Mind Humans Has Beens Lasts Human Beings Break Technology Historical Bounds Scales Homo Sapiens

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of Mice and Men,' I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic.”

Men Years Firsts Has Beens Said Dog Materials Red Years Ago Critics Excellent Mice My Dog Manuscripts

Author:John Steinbeck

“I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.”

Years Has Beens Lasts My Own Player Blood Fans Football Clubs Football Player Great Football Fulham

Author:Mohamed Al-Fayed

“My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.”

World Years Kind Has Beens Two Running Winning Race Focus Combination Championship Running Fast

Author:David Rudisha

“There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.”

Men Years Has Beens Made Film Dark Novel Comedy Materials Huge Including Studios Establishment Cult Screenplays Dice Paramount Dark Comedy

Author:Luke Rhinehart

“The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.”

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

“To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.”

Ifs Should Years Firsts Wells Has Beens Whole Use Views India Twenties London Setting Ships Settings Prophet Score Forty Sail Captains Wiser Voyages Port Deck Brat Thames

Book:The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

“In South Korea, a scientist considered to be one of the pioneers in the field of cloning has been sentenced to two years in prison. At least, they think it's him.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Two Fields Scientist Prison South Two Years Korea Pioneers South Korea Cloning

Author:Jay Leno

“In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.”

“Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. .... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head...”

Men World Years Has Beens War Evil Social Understanding Produce Blind Moved Structure War Of The Worlds Remove One Man Honey World War I Bees Goodwill Second World War Reorganisation

Author:William Golding

“Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is not shaken, at some time in the year, by "old, unhappy, far-off things / And battles long ago", like Wordsworth's solitary reaper. We are a nation of immigrants, and not happy in our minds.”

Years Mind Long Has Beens Nations Duty Battle Prejudice Unhappy Canada Immigrants Elsewhere Solitary Long Ago Compelled Indigenous Not Happy Imports Reaper Wordsworth

Author:Robertson Davies

“Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?”

Years Has Beens Light Heaven Felt Loses Half Fruit Disappointment Deeds Insight Believer Resolve Sparks Creeds Vague New Beginnings Casual Morrow Wanderers

Book:Dover Beach and Other Poems

Source: Dover Beach and Other Poems

“No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.”

Years Has Beens Made Lasts British Ministers Judgement Prime Ignored Prime Minister Seventies Initials Stanley

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.”

Years Has Beens Gun Size Vices Stealing Pens Fraud Charlie Chairman Accounting Staggering Perpetrators

Author:Warren Buffett