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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman

Said, Universe, Far

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal

Die, Living, Earth

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
Richard Dawkins

Life, Justice, Nothing

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
Phyllis Battelle

Life, Heart, Saying

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

Life, Success, Enough

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
Stephen Hawking

Human, Next, Space

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
Frank Zappa

Love, Sure, Found

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
George Mason

Time, Experience, Greatest

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
Harvey Fierstein

Work, Angry, Give

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
Chuck Palahniuk

Age, Best, Everything

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Age, Old, Older

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Lysander Spooner

Once, Less, Choose

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing

Change, Great, Confusion

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
Quentin Crisp

Good, Saying, While

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
Freddie Mercury

Time, Emotional, May

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron

Baseball, Three, Golf

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Mary Schmich

Age, Women, Old

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
Steven Spielberg

Dreams, Done, Create

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Between, House, Choose

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Antonin Artaud

Time, Morning, Made

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
Mignon McLaughlin

Words, Down, Wish

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
William Butler Yeats

Life, Death, Mind

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.
Harvey Fierstein

Work, Nice, Hard

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Julius Caesar

Long, Enough, Both

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren

Life, Mistakes, Play

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

Peace, End, Cannot

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane Austen

Woman, Before, Sometimes

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
Marco Rubio

Leadership, Time, Days

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.
Robert H. Schuller

God, Writing, Thinking

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings

Freedom, Democracy, America

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