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“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.”

Thinking Years Different Form Five Imagine Heard Hundred Years Ago Cat Madness Stranger Tricks Likes Imagine That Yards Grey Present Day

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago”

Years Kind Form Guy Hero Years Ago Expected Quitting All Kinds Smoke Drank Wayne Manly My Hero I Quit Abstinence

Author:Larry Hagman

“There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the very idea of post-feminism is ridiculous. The same people who 30-40 years ago said the women's movement is not necessary, 'it's going against nature, my wife is not interested' [are] the same people now saying 'well it used to be necessary but not anymore.' The very invention of the word post-feminism is the current form of resistance.”

People Years Wells Mean Doe Said Ideas Form Used Democracy Wife Feminism Movement Years Ago Currents Excuse My Wife Ridiculous Invention Resistance Used To Be Posts Not Interested Excuse Me

Author:Gloria Steinem

“A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out of bed and into extinction. The decline of biological diversity is real and severe. The alarming loss of soil fertility, forest cover, and coral reef viability and the release of fossilized CO2 that nature put away 300 million years ago in its march toward greater diversity - all these "losses" and many others are the result of one life-form annihilating other life-forms in its immoral confusion of "dominion" with "domination."”

“I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.”

Years Form Rocks Music Is Years Ago Conservative Conclusion New Things Rock Music

Author:Rob Chapman

“...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.”

“When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.”

Writing Years Form Novel Years Ago Chosen

Author:William Nicholson

“A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found dated 120,000-100,000 years ago, as well as Neandertals dated at 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, followed again by modern humans dated at 40,000 years ago. It is unclear whether the two forms repeatedly replaced one another by migration from other regions, or whether they coexisted in some areas”

Knows Years Humans Wells Has Beens Two Form Found Modern Middle Areas Years Ago East Regions Middle East Replaced Caves Fossils Migration Disappearance Unclear

Author:Francisco J. Ayala

“Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.”

People Years Firsts Kind Form Millions Planets Concern Years Ago Sacred Access Obscure Shamanism Anthropologists

Author:Terence McKenna

“I'm not sure I can name a kind of story that wouldn't work in comics form. It's words and images, and we've been telling all kinds of stories with that combination since theatre was invented thousands of years ago.”

Years Kind I Can Stories Form Names Years Ago Theatre All Kinds Combination Not Sure

Author:James Vance

“My dream many years ago would've been to continue to write and record songs in record/album form for years to come, but now records aren't what they were then - and so it doesn't actually feel very good to make a record of songs.”

Feels Writing Years Dream Form Song Records Years Ago Very Good Albums

Author:Will Oldham

“Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.”

People Years Hard Form Common Imagine Crime Birth Years Ago Prison Birth Control

Author:Dick Durbin

“The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In national polls almost half of those surveyed have reported that they believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago (or less) and that man shares no common ancestor with the ape. There are similar beliefs about the Second Coming.”

“Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.”

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Author:Amos Oz

“I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.”

World Years Country Form Felt Happened Ignorance Particular Happenings Years Ago Circles Superficial Sinking Happening Again

Author:Raoul Peck

“Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.”

Years Country States Today Form Gone Democracy Years Ago Police Democratic Heavy Police State Venezuela Democratization Democratic Country

Author:David Frum

“When I say that "l see God," I don't necessarily mean to say that when I chant I'm seeing Krishna in His original form when He came five thousand years ago, dancing across the water, playing His flute. Of course, that would also be nice, and it's quite possible too. When you become real pure by chanting, you can actually see God like that, I mean personally. But no doubt you can feel His presence and know that He's there when you're chanting.”

Knows Feels Years Mean Real Form Courses Water Doubt Five Nice Seeing Thousand Pure Years Ago Originals Dancing No Doubt Being Nice Thousand Years Krishna Flutes Chanting

Author:George Harrison

“Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical distribution, if any at all. Some television distribution, but relatively small audiences regardless. And in the intervening years it's become more and more popular with a lot of people.”

People Ifs Years Wells Art Film Form Audience Television Years Ago Twenties Thirty Documentaries Distribution Theatrical Thirty Years Intervening Documentary Films

Author:Errol Morris

“Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what he called a spade form, which you can imagine looks a little bit like a shovel upside down.”

Years Looks Littles Made Different Together Form Bits Saws Cutting Imagine Little Bit Years Ago Died Joining Upside Down Exhibitions Shovels Spades Vases Catalogues

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.”

Knows Years Would Be Kids Form Communication Ten Years Ago Texting

Author:Amy Klobuchar

“What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.”

Years May Form Space Objects Grew Years Ago Essence Wine Fruit Miles Grapes Defiance Recollection Miles Away

Book:Handy Andy: a tale of Irish life ... With eleven illustrations by John Proctor

Source: Handy Andy: a tale of Irish life ... With eleven illustrations by John Proctor

“There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.”

Years Doe Form Progress Years Ago Essence Transcendentalism

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.”

Years Form Song Three Left Gone Minutes Periods Musician Years Ago Moved Studios Connected Bubbles Rock N Roll Time Travel

Author:Tom Waits

“Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world.”

Men World Years Different Care Today Earth Jobs Form Spirit Sides Natural Animal Responsibility Angel Years Ago Harmony Plant Natural World Telepathy Different Jobs Shared Responsibility

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.”

Thinking Years Firsts Form Vision Technology Information Needed Years Ago Glasses Factors Google Queries Google Glass

Author:Sergey Brin

“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”

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Author:Vaclav Havel

“I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.”

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