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“It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.”

Years Wells Religion Difficult Women Cutting Sea Influence Land Periods Thousand Paid Seven Extremes Miles Boundaries Significance Reverence Goddess Longevity Thousand Years Immensity Expanse

Author:Merlin Stone

“Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.”

Age Emotion Periods

Author:Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

“I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the character. He ran with it, and then I was able to run with it. I thank him for the opportunity he gave me. Vince McMahon was one of my best friends, period.”

Character Running Able Opportunity Periods Ran My Best Friend

Author:Kurt Angle

“The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes characterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not folded. She struts, she does not sweep. She has not one of the attributes of nature nor of proper art. She neither soothes the eye like a flower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effects.”

Doe Art Eye Girl Effects Fashion Youth Flower Broken Periods Please Clothes Surprise Awful Attributes Meaningless Toes Broadway Sauntering Dazzle Kaleidoscope Panorama

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“... Providence conducts us with so much kindness through the different periods of our life, that we scarcely feel the change; our days glide gently and imperceptibly along, like the motion of the hour-hand, which we cannot discover. ... we advance gradually; we are the same to-day as yesterday, and to-morrow as to-day: thus we go on, without perceiving it, which is a miracle of the Providence I adore.”

Feels Different Hands Hours Kindness Our Lives Goes On Periods Miracle Yesterday Providence Adore Morrow

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena.”

Important Body Language Fiction Theory Periods Bridges Revelations Convenient Transitory Grappling

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?”

Seems Social Moral Principles Periods Universal Agree Foundation Medicine Evolve Social Change Harmonious Social Life Reconstruction Looming Demolition

Book:Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

Source: Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

“The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product both directly and indirectly.”

Doe Stills Seems Growth Four Fields Products Periods Computer Accounts Decades Significant Mature Slow Down Gross Percentages Slowing Intoxicated Galloping

Author:Fernando J. Corbato

“The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.”

Writing Used Language Lines Numbers Periods Independent Code Fixed Programmers

Author:Fernando J. Corbato

“Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.”

Source: His Master's Voice

“It is said there is no happiness, and no love to be compared to that which is felt for the first time. Most persons erroneously think so; but love like other arts requires experience, and terror and ignorance, on its first approach, prevent our feeling it as strongly as at a later period.”

Thinking Love Firsts Persons Art Said Feelings Felt Ignorance Periods Approach First Time Terror No Love

Book:Glenarvon (1816).

Source: Glenarvon (1816).

“In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of youthful patriots who seriously set themselves to right the wrongs done to their race or nation or . . . art or self-expression.”

Art Self Done Nations Race Groups Expression Periods Patriot Self Expression

Author:Alice Dunbar Nelson

“men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.”

Men Different Pay Mistake Periods Bigger Same Mistakes

Book:Written on water: a novel

Source: Written on water: a novel

“Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.”

Men May Has Beens Art Ideas Use Inspiration Might Energy Left Youth Painting Periods Saint Painter Might Have Been Ripe Lively Versatile Great Service

Author:Laura Riding

“True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it ... They may have no reason for feeling more unhappy at that particular period than at any other. Their worldly circumstances may be just what they have been for a long time past, and perfectly satisfactory. But there suddenly closes down on them a fog of the mind which exaggerates and distorts everything.”

Men World Mind May Long Has Beens Real Reason Feelings Past Particular Periods Circumstances Depression Long Time Men And Women Unhappy No Reason Worldly Fog Real Things Times Past

Author:J. E. Buckrose

“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.”

“It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.”

Wells Persons School Levels Periods High School Miracle Absolutes Bullying Bizarre

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.”

Ends Stories Internet Periods Stealing Free Speech Permission

Author:Mark Cuban

“All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.”

“At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."”

Ends Names Meditation Buddhism Periods Bows

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.”

Meditation Judging Buddhism Periods Minimum

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood.”

Children Responsibility Childhood Fashion Perspective Periods Adults Rooted Wwii Shortcomings Mothering Child Rearing

Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.”

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.”

Men Hands Acting Mankind Ignorance Periods Mass Misery Expected Enlightened Unnecessary

Book:First American from the third London edition

Source: First American from the third London edition

“He [the Lord] will always hear your prayers and will invariably answer them. However, His answers will seldom come while you are on your knees praying, even when you may plead for an immediate response. Rather, He will prompt you in quiet moments when the Spirit can most effectively touch your mind and heart. Hence, you should find periods of quiet time to recognize when you are being instructed and strengthened.”

Should Mind Heart May Moments Spirit Prayer Answers Lord Praying Periods Quiet Response Knees Heart And Mind Our Prayers Prompts Quiet Time Quiet Moments

Author:Richard G. Scott

“A recent study shows that standing at work for long periods of time is bad for you, after earlier research indicated that sitting for too long at work is bad for you. So really the only thing we know is, work is bad for you.”

Knows Long Shows Study Periods Research Sitting Standing Long Periods Of Time

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.”

Wells Past Film Teach Periods Negative Crisis Cinema Sailing

Author:Vittorio De Sica

“A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.”

Hands Pain Past Five Broken Periods Sorrow Twenties Eight Thirty Cheerful Twenty Five Broken Down Auditors Thirty Eight Mental Pain

Book:Self Analysis

Source: Self Analysis

“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

“Boris Nemtsov, left his mark on the history of Russia, in politics and public life. He worked on important positions in the difficult transition period for our country. He always openly and honestly stated his position, defended his point of view.”

Life Important Country Politics Left Difficult Views Position Periods Mark Point Of View Honestly Russia Our Country Transition Public Life

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.”

Humans War Form Peace Natural Impossible Periods Chaos Available Thirst

Author:Frank Herbert

“I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.”

I Can Book One Thing Inspire Periods Calm Boxes Magazines Take Me Cereal Love To Read Take Me Away

Author:Sarah Dessen

“A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through his unconscious power of absorption, though he is himself still immobile. After the age of three he is able to acquire a great number of concepts through his own efforts in exploring his surroundings. In this period he lays hold of things through his own activity and assimilates them into his mind.”

Years Mind Children Littles Stills Two Age Able Three Numbers Effort Periods Activity Achievement Capable Concepts Lays Acquire Unconscious Exploring Surroundings Absorption

Author:Maria Montessori

“My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.”

Long Fiction Periods Ideals Regard Libertarian Anarchism Anarchist Long Periods Of Time Early Work

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.”

Needs Humans Important Seems Lying Passion Given Human Nature Periods Historical Confusion Etc Misunderstanding

Author:Erich Fromm

“With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.”

Next Interest Cases Periods Activity Stress Crisis Developing Exception Mature Chapters Adolescence Orderly Next Chapter

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.”

Vision Periods Difficulty Defeat Obstacles Lifts Quests Fanaticism Discouraging Marvellous

Author:Margaret Sanger

“A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence”

Baby Periods Sentences Pregnancy Lifelong

Author:Cathy Crimmins

“It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry. The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny.”

Together Views Accepting Nice Century Balance Citizens Periods Ultimate Constitution Fellows Satisfaction Tyranny Checks Utility Englishmen Second Amendment Citizenry Armed Citizens

Author:Joyce Lee Malcolm

“The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parentsduring this period is that they cannot do the work of living and relating for their children. They can be sounding boards and they can probe with the children the consequences of alternative actions.”

Years Children Action Faces Middle Periods Conflict Consequence Alternatives Boards

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.”

Ifs Way Needs Years Children Lost Levels Support Forever Wife Involved Periods Our Children Intimate Primitive Fatherhood Involvement Caretaking

Author:Augustus Napier

“Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic.”

Ifs Thinking Men School Universe Education Class Periods Starting Primaries Cosmos Horizon Realistic Conceited Compulsory Primary School

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It never feels good if you don't reach all of your goals, neither in sport, nor in business nor in your personal life. But the key thing is to never give up, we have taken our learnings from 2014 and developed an exciting and promising strategy for the period up until 2020.”

Ifs Life Giving Feels Sports Goal Taken Keys Periods Giving Up Exciting Strategy Feel Good Personal Life Never Giving Up Key Things

Author:Herbert Hainer

“You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues”

Individual Social Issues Trouble Periods Historical Social Issues Time Periods

Author:C. Wright Mills

“2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time.”

Long Change Events Periods Long Time Long Time Ago Long Periods Of Time

Author:Rand Paul

“I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.”

Writing I Can Rocks Periods Opera Chamber Listening To Music Absorbing Old And New Chamber Music

Author:Cheryl Mendelson

“I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.”

Years Firsts Two Periods Mets Two Years Making Love And Off

Author:Lawrence Schiller

“A lot is being done to bring additional protective measures, particularly the critical infrastructure locations around the United States, ... There is a very active ... program of coordination on this particular period of time with both public and private entities and at the federal, state and local levels.”

States Done Levels United United States Particular Periods Program Critical Active Locals Entity Location Infrastructure Protective Being Done Coordination

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.”

Plans Youth Periods Judgment Stealing Superiors Neighborhood

Book:The Confessions of Nat Turner

Source: The Confessions of Nat Turner

“In the past we could afford a long gestation period before undertaking major environmental policy initiatives. Today the time for a well-planned transition to a sustainable system is running out. We may be moving in the right direction, but we are moving too slowly. We are failing in our responsibility to future generations and even the present one.”

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