Periodically Quotes
69 quotes by 63 authors
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Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I think it is important that people be made aware that the vegetarian movement has a venerable history behind it. It didn’t spring full-blown from…
— Rynn Berry
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Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?â€â€”but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of…
— Alan Perlis
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There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes…
— Glenn Greenwald
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The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never…
— W.C. Fields
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So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president…
— Robert Muller
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A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are…
— Lysander Spooner
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It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.
— Glenn Greenwald
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We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main…
— Katherine Dunham
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I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of…
— David Eddings
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The source of most human violence and suffering has been a hidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billions of innocent human beings have been routinely…
— Lloyd deMause
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This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole life's reputation was…
— Mike Tyson
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A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those…
— Gore Vidal
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An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency. . . . Manna for political junkies. . . . Thoroughly researched . .…
— Carlo Wolff
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The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New…
— Charles Sturt
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And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
— Minoru Yamasaki
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Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
— Ernest Mandel
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It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your…
— Ian Mcewan
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The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to…
— Louis de Broglie
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In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a…
— Eleanor Robson Belmont
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