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“In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I ask, can man be in control if he can't even draw up a plan for a ridiculously short period of time, say, a thousand years, and is, moreover, unable to ensure his own safety for even the next day?”

Ifs Men Years May Order Next Asks Plans Periods Thousand Draws Safety Reasonable Thousand Years Definite Next Day

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”

Years May Two Age Memories Alive Politician Thousand Forgotten Immortality Thousand Years Bernard Shaw Stravinsky Madame Curie

Author:Anthony Burgess

“Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.”

Years May Tomorrow Thousand Yesterday Thousand Years

Book:The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam

Source: The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam

“A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.”

“A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.”

Ifs Years May Age Fool Thousand Clean Wit Thousand Years Wipe Slate

Book:King of Thorns

Source: King of Thorns

“It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.”

Knows Years Mind May States Events Thousand Ten Notes Strikes State Of Mind Thousand Years

Book:Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)

Source: Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)

“There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.”

People Giving Years May Littles Persons Ideas Young Values Expression Thousand Thousand Years Gifted Preventing Pretext

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character