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A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great… — Calvin Coolidge
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with… — Vladimir Lenin
Along time ago I asked myself do I want to be right or do I want to be kind; I opted for kind. — Jane Lynch
Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of… — Wallace Stevens
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers… — Theodore White
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars… — P.J. O'Rourke
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were,… — Louis Agassiz
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago… — Hermann Kolbe
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by… — George Wald
If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ...… — Fritjof Capra
X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally,… — Thomas A. Edison
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed… — Edward Teller
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch… — Charles Lindbergh
It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in physics… — Barack Obama
Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the… — Abraham Lincoln
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food… — Abraham Lincoln
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one.… — Katharine Hepburn
[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new… — Richard Dawkins
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of… — Arthur C. Clarke
I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life… — Antony Hewish
There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population… — Bertrand Russell
It was a long time ago, we were in the office, and we had finished work exhausted. A friend of a friend said 'Hey, take… — Giorgio Armani
In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years… — Lee Iacocca
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we… — Will Durant

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