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“There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.”

World Long Age Lasts Middle Periods Creating Long Time Jazz Golden Sixty Innovators Golden Age Creating Things

Author:Sonny Rollins

“Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.”

World May Children Different Girl Parent Levels Boys Teacher Periods Classroom Domain Different Worlds Different Levels Outspoken Like A Boy

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in the very beginning, if a person meditates with someone who is very advanced.”

Ifs World Persons Happens Moving Meditation Buddhism Periods Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.”

World Years Heart Growth Millions Issues Periods Demand China Oil Around The World Developing Gas Consumption Crude Barrels Crude Oil Oil Consumption

Author:John S. Watson

“It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.”

World Culture Periods Obvious World Love African Culture

Author:Hugh Masekela

“Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.”

World Long Stills Seems Earth Science Theory Periods Soldier Terror Wide Boredom Phenomenon Plates Modus Operandi

Author:D. V. Ager

“The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.”

World Long Moving Meditation Stage Awareness This World Periods Long Periods Of Time

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.”

World War Ends Found Growing Up Growing Cold Periods Nuclear Hopeful Holocaust Cold War

Author:George Clooney

“Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.”

World Way Home Periods Driven Accepted Always Happy

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation.”

Thinking World Needs Pain Order Mankind Periods Contradiction Internals New World Strain Emerging New World Order World Order Navigation

Author:William Irwin Thompson

“Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.”

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Maybe now people will give a man credit where credit is deserved. Roy Jones was beaten by a better fighter period. I'm one of the best in the world.”

People Men World Giving Periods Credit Fighter Beaten Roy Jones

Author:Antonio Tarver

“If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.”

Ifs World May Suffering Culture Grows Moral Periods Civilization Roots Drag Degradation Deterioration

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches

“It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.”

World May Long Doe Has Beens Given Natural Danger Periods Findings Employment Occupation Retirement Retiring Indispensable Accustomed Given Up Calculating New Business

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.”

Source: The Meditations: Translated from the Greek

“Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.”

People Men World Way Blood Periods Horror Significant Changing The World Repentance Willingness Introducing Shed Plausible Bloodshed Showmanship

Book:The Sirens of Titan

Source: The Sirens of Titan

“The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.”

Ifs World Ends Seems Past Rich Century Periods Curiosity Ruins Apartment End Of The World Gothic Renaissance Cabinets Antiquity Predicaments

Author:Alfred de Musset

“After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.”

“I think J.S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets, but also as good as it gets, period -- as good as existence, reality, life and the world.”

Thinking World Reality Existence Periods Music Is Accomplishment Humankind Greatest Accomplishment Good As It Gets Bach's Music

Author:Andrew W.K.

“Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place.”

“In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring infidelity, and contempt of God; so that the world which was once over-run with ignorance, now by wisdom knew not God, but changed the glory of the incorruptible God as much as in the most barbarous ages, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Nay, as they increased in science and politeness, they ran into more abundant and extravagant idolatries.”

Men World Made Running Age Four Changed Ignorance Periods Glory Bird Ran Beast Enlightened Contempt Daring Infidelity Politeness Idolatry Barbarism Extravagant

Author:William Carey

“The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.”

People World Humans Lasts Forget Vision Building Theory Periods Method Blind Spots Landscape Shock Vocabulary Relativity Disturbance Computing Stunned Upheaval Blind Spots Tics

Book:The Art of Being Ruled

Source: The Art of Being Ruled

“He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.”

“My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better than it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better than how it's recorded.”

World Ends Song Records Periods Band

Author:Ben Harper

“I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.”

“Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beauty because the members of humanity who have created these idioms of beauty are going to be a part of us. And I would say that we are in a period when we are discovering and becoming acquainted with these idioms for the first time.”

Ifs World Should Firsts Seems Humanity Understanding Becoming Periods Members First Time Should Have Discovering Idiom

Author:Mark Tobey

“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.”

World Reason Political Powerful Leader Century Periods Enlightenment Europe Tradition Roots Employed Better Place Political Leaders

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

“The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the bible position of woman briefly summed up.”

Source: The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

“Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.”

World Firsts Moving Periods Impact Environmental Comment Assessment Environmental Impact

Author:Socrates

“We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.”

Knows World Has Beens Important Today Periods Bills Clinton Gates World Today

Author:Peter Jennings

“Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.”

“An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.”

World Has Beens Culture Feminism Periods Indigenous Suppression

Book:Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology

Source: Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology

“Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.”

“The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.”

World Heart Long Periods Senses Bliss Instant Clumsy

Book:Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness

Source: Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness

“At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.”

World Stories Body Religion Three This World Periods Empty Disappear Core Fifty Heavenly Forty Easter Tombs Exit Angelic Announcements Ascension Time Periods

Book:Resurrection: Myth or Reality?

Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality?

“My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.”

People World Important Moments Fall Lost Answers Failing Stage Fronts This World Periods Adults Falling In Love Busy Invisible Peers Too Busy Listen To Me Spoken Word Time Periods

Author:Sarah Kay

“[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.”

People World Book Moving Memories Happened Periods Surface Confused Distraction Usual Detachment Armor

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.”

World Two Able Reading Months Periods Six Aspect Independent Entity Six Months Convincing Transparent Detached Two Worlds Jellyfish

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.”

World Feels Able Nations Generations Century This World Periods Unique Europe Accomplish Our Society Great Change

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“One of the obstacles to recognizing chronic mistreatment in relationships is that most abusive men simply don't seem like abusers. They have many good qualities, including times of kindness, warmth, and humor, especially in the early period of a relationship. An abuser's friends may think the world of him. He may have a successful work life and have no problems with drugs or alcohol. He may simply not fit anyone's image of a cruel or intimidating person. So when a woman feels her relationship spinning out of control, it is unlikely to occur to her that her partner is an abuser.”

“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.”

World Long Has Beens Heaven Periods Unions Division Divides Antiquity

Author:Luo Guanzhong

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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 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

“One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.”

World Doe Strong Economy Periods Healthy

Author:Bill Ford