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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to… — George Bernard Shaw
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently,… — Josiah Johnson Hawes
I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive.… — Sam Walton
It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you… — Lewis Thomas
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair,… — Tennessee Williams
The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I… — Linus Pauling
The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of… — Jean Paul
Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country. — Pope Pius XI
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but… — Ian Macfarlane
The single biggest issue that I'm very sensitive to is inflation. I'm very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates were quite low… — Sam Zell
The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are… — Al Gore
The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and a… — Robert Fritz
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal… — Eleanor Roosevelt
In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves,… — Ivar Giaever
Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of solarmagnetic activity. ...… — Unknown Author
Climate change is the greatest threat to our common future. We have a very short period of time to tackle the problem before it becomes… — Chris Huhne
You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life… — Milton Friedman
Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the ability… — Gay Hendricks
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period. — John Donne
Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short… — Hartman Rector, Jr.
All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and… — Adolf Hitler
Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in… — Swami Vivekananda
And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but… — William Shatner

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