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“It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".”

Feels Should Has Beens Fun Written Periods Should Have Opening Celebrate Primitive Machinery Spinning Stimulus Should Have Been Riot Pacific Railway Jenny

Author:Constant Lambert

“In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned previously will cease to function, or at least will have to be re-thought and re-considered.”

Way Believe Moving I Believe Term Periods Function Historical Cease Posts

Author:Mark Pesce

“The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).”

Important Real Three Term Pieces Periods Add Estates Location

Book:Money dynamics for the new economy

Source: Money dynamics for the new economy

“I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.”

Years Would Be Lasts House Wonder Gone Forever Week Baby Periods Bird Decided Busy Caring Camping

Book:Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover

Source: Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover

“Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.”

Ideas Fun Sex Dog Youth Periods Skins Hot Ill Defined Smoking Good Times Smooth Marvelous Dope Hot Dog Before Death Smooth Skin

Book:How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

“No one wants to lose, period. It should hurt, it should sting, and you don't want to feel that feeling again.”

Want Feels Should Feelings Loses Hurt Periods

Author:Hope Solo

“Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.”

Years Periods Incredibles Eight

Author:Ringo Starr

“The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.”

Ifs World Giving Years Art Made Christian Form Three Four Advice Havens Periods Chosen Made It Four Years Entering Dump

Author:Cliff Richard

“We rehearsed our 'Scarface' to the nines. Long period of rehearsal, so that by the time we started to shoot, it was almost like doing a play. We all had a grand time doing it. It was a wonderful cast.”

Long Play Wonderful Periods Casts Rehearsal Scarface

Author:Robert Loggia

“A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.”

World Nature Effort Secret Periods Breaths Silent Wicked Wilderness Retreat Recreation Escaping Recourse Wicked World

Author:Benton MacKaye

“You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.”

Long Moments Film Actors Challenges Emotion Periods Tricks Long Periods Of Time Film Actors

Author:Aaron Stanford

“It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.”

People Real Home Existence Loneliness Periods Lonely Twenties Comedian Bizarre Cliche Poignant

Author:Paul Merton

“People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.”

People Ifs Trying Believe Whole Periods Whole Life Tics Tourettes

Author:Dash Mihok

“It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.”

Real Helping Music Cry Periods Eating Music Is Drinking Fats Pigs Eating And Drinking

Author:John Lennon

“A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.”

Persons Political Plans Periods Prosperity Dues Welfare Consideration Rulers Public Welfare

Author:Chanakya

“Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.”

Thinking Men Guy Periods Every Man

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.”

Thinking May Long Understanding Growth Acting Periods Helpful Consumption Long Periods Of Time

Book:The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

Source: The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

“I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know - secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time - that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.”

“The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.”

People World Years Two Government Spirit United History Virtue Objects Periods Forty Two Years Sole Reign Great People Roman Empire

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.”

Should Years Looks Two Age Hate Education Five Youth Periods Twenties Seven Vices Following Stranger Pursuit Five Years Divided Hereafter Passed Away Puberty

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?”

Source: Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951

“The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.”

Giving Periods Giving Up Finals Investing Financial Driven Massive Bubbles Decline Collapse Panic Outsiders Crash Distress Sucker Hanging On Insiders

Author:Charles P. Kindleberger

“The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which preceded the War. ... The only thing that will save us is a new gold policy or the discovery of a new process or additional gold fields. If the fall [of gold production] is not prevented by design or accident we shall throttle business, wringing out all profits and experiencing all the evils of deflation.”

Ifs Years May Two War Fall Evil Next Process Policy Design Fields Periods Discovery Gold Investing Profit Productions Accidents Two Years Exceed Throttle Deflation New Processes

Author:Irving Fisher

“Even if you are focusing on a chakra, you don't want to do that for the whole period of meditation. There should be a point where you let go. Settle down. Get off the train of thought for a while.”

Ifs Want Should Whole Meditation Buddhism Periods Letting Go Train Settling Settling Down Chakra Chakra Meditation Train Of Thought

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.”

Years Students Periods Towns Buddhist Cosmology

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change.”

Humanity Challenges Periods Climate Change Global Warming Unprecedented

Book:Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet

Source: Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet

“Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.”

Waiting Records Periods Mental Health Access Backgrounds Checks Reports Transfers Firearms Buyers Background Checks

Author:Colleen Hanabusa

“Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.”

War Certain Amount Periods Directors Members Europe International Boards Commerce Chamber Bankers Board Of Directors Chamber Of Commerce

Author:W. Averell Harriman

“Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map.”

“Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.”

Way Writing Kind Nice Periods Music Is Rewards My Way Depressing Very Nice Save Me Accolades

Author:Randy Houser

“Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.”

Knows World Self Periods Trade Terrorist Intense Novelists Examination Loathing Self Loathing Terrorist Attacks World Trade World Trade Center Self-examination

Author:Jay McInerney

“When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.”

Actors Nice Particular Periods Mad Fats Village Diaries Time Periods

Author:Nico

“You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.”

Feels Kind Magic Periods About Yourself Feel Better

Author:David Copperfield

“Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.”

Novel Four Months Periods Offers Down And Agents Sat

Author:Melissa Marr

“Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.”

Real My Own Periods Research Setting Settings Acquire Surroundings Vividness

Author:Rose Tremain

“When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.”

Two Given Week Land Periods Leaving Covered Given Up Chairman Two Weeks Edinburgh Deputies Glasgow Mps

Author:Jeffrey Archer

“The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.”

War Faces Nations Greater Periods Diversity Wander Invasion Captivity

Author:Vasily Grossman

“I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.”

Wanted Periods Paid Dancing Dancer Choreography

Author:Mae Jemison

“Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?”

Men World Long Dream Lasts This World Periods Granted Always Happy

Author:Frederic Chopin

“The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.”

May Happens Media Students Periods Patterns Pseudo New Media

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.”

Writing Ends Periods Clean Sentences

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.”

Way Long Together Left President Numbers Issues Plans Economic Periods Office Clinton Debt Balanced Deficit Surplus Long Periods Of Time President Clinton

Author:Chris Van Hollen

“Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.”

Years Humans Long Responsibility Teacher Childhood Periods Professors Adulthood Adolescence Human History Constraints Irresponsible Tenure Frivolity

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.”

“Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.”

World War Country Nations Modern Periods Concepts War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Libya

Author:Elliott Abrams

“Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.”

Company Periods Majors Resources Innovation Financial Intense Pulling Distress Protective

Author:Peter Senge

“At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.”

Thinking Writing Long Said Periods Capable Long Periods Of Time

Author:Edan Lepucki

“It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.”

Feelings Certain Numbers Periods Leaving Divorced 1960s Stretching

Author:Richie Benaud

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