Decades Quotes - Page 6

• For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.

  James Fallows

  War, People, Vietnam

  "As We Near the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War" by James Fallows, www.theatlantic.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.

  Kip Thorne

  Years, Law, Understanding

  "Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

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• In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply.

  David Klinghoffer

  Law, Lasts, Natural

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• Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard work, eyes that have witnessed decades of change, and hearts that have felt a lifetime of emotions. Our whole society benefits when older Americans use their talents and experiences to become involved in the arts as creators, teachers, mentors, volunteers, and audiences.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Art, Powerful

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• Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Lying, Passion, Waiting

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

  Robert Jarvik

  Physicians, Matter, Clear

  "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyeraki, Maeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.

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• For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  College, Community, Leader

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

  Jim Ryun

  Growing, Next, Facts

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• Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Mother, Water, Lasts

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• I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

  Liz Carpenter

  Differences, Making A Difference, That One Person

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• To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

  Brendan Gill

  Death, Mourning, Ends

  BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

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• A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Lying, Two

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.

  John Lahr

  Kids, Civilization, Class

  "Can’t Stop the Beat" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

  Richard Leakey

  Elephants, People, Poaching

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• To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

  Paul Davies

  Taken, Technology, Aliens

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• The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

  Lou Gerstner

  Technology, Issues, Promise

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• Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker.

  H. G. Wells

  Money, Taken, Optimistic

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• Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

  Robert Harris

  Tape, Stores, Scales

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• If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

  Freeman Dyson

  Moving, Thinking, Moon

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• One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article about me which said I was a Hungarian writer but pretending not to be. Bearing in mind I can hardly write a cheque in Hungarian, I was delighted to be included in the pantheon of Hungarian writers.

  Tibor Fischer

  Book, Writing, Achievement

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• Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Persistence, Quality

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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• A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

  Alexander Haig

  Mutual Benefit, Long, Important

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• I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Eras, Grew Up

  "Tom Ford: The Sequel" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 9, 2010.

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• I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.

  Derek Jarman

  Eye, Wish, Receiving

  Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

  LeVar Burton

  Children, War, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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