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It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal,… — H. A. L. Fisher
I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were… — Cory Monteith
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church and of nations… — Pope Leo XIII
The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by… — William Buckland
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening… — Berthold Auerbach
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value… — Franz Boas
We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development. — Clifford Allbutt
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is… — G. Stanley Hall
Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each… — Al-Ghazali
And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses,… — Maya Angelou
Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it… — Julia Gillard
If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period. — A. C. Green
Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time. — Robin Williams
I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when they… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley
There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We don't need to… — Unknown Author
...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say,… — Al Gore
Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on… — Tom Hodgkinson
This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time. — Tom Ridge
There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment. — Isaac Babel
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
You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to… — Charlie Munger
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

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