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“If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.”

Ifs Men Giving Book Would Be Months Birth Periods Gestation Gestation Period

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.”

“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

“You can't have it all, all at once. Who—man or woman—has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Persons Different Helping Periods Caring Partners Rough Life Partner

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things at white heat.”

Thinking Men Happens Can Do White Periods Photography Discovery Photographer Heat

Author:Walker Evans

“How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?”

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