Thirty Years Quotes - Page 2

• I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Wisdom, Islamic, Years

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• It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.

  John Michael Greer

  Reality, Years, Class

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• Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it can to cut competition, with major corporations merging and consolidating at every opportunity.

  Lou Dobbs

  Cutting, Past, Opportunity

  Lou Dobbs (2006). “War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War ont he American Dream and How to Fight Back”, p.110, Penguin

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• As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing flying were laughed at as mad, and that scorn hindered aviation. Now we heap similar ridicule upon stratoplane or rocket ships for trans-Atlantic flights.

  Auguste Piccard

  Believe, Years, Europe

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• You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

  J. L. Carr

  Years, Statistics, Thirty

  'The Harpole Report' (1972) p. 128

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• I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, and I said that my career came to an appropriate close, and I still loved photography. Not everybody who spends their career at anything ends up fascinated and involved with it.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Years, Careers

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• How long do we have to deal with conservative failure? How long? Thirty years is not enough? So I would say enough with that, and I would say check out the Center for American Progress, and the writings by Patrick Garofalo, economic guru. That's what I would say.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Writing, Years, Long

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.

  Doc Childre

  Lying, Heart, Technology

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• Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.

  Stella Gibbons

  Writing, Years, Three

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• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

  Vernor Vinge

  Mean, Years, Eras

  "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Vernor Vinge's remarks presented at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 30-31, 1993.

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• For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

  Lynn Hill

  Rocks, Climbing, Years

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• I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Years, Ideas

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• Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns six percent on capital over forty years and you hold it for that forty years, you're not going to make much different than a six percent return - even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns eighteen percent on capital over twenty or thirty years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you'll end up with one hell of a result.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Long, Twenties

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• For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It seeks to be praised for its intention more than for what it is saying.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Past, Years, Serious

  Stephen Dobyns (2011). “Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

  Christine Sneed

  Years, Pandora's Box, Facts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I've had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father has been a leader within the movement for over thirty years and has taught most of what I know about environmental conservation. While he would always take me hiking, camping, and rafting, he also taught me that the spiritual value of the outdoors alone is not enough to save nature against economic interests.

  Edward Norton

  Spiritual, Strong, Father

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• Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

  Peter Menzel

  Color, Years, Make Or Break

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• I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

  Edward Zigler

  Children, Years, Issues

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• You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a decade after the Civil War and before north/south compact essentially recriminalized black life. During the Second World War there was a need for free labor so there was a freeing up of the labor force. Blacks benefitted from it.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Labor Force, Years

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I don't know if there was really ever a golden age of the music business. Most of what was released has always been garbage and some has been able to get through and last. I don't know that it was much better thirty years ago. The music industry just wasn't as efficient. The music industry was more oddball guys who did it for fun and now they are huge corporations that have become more structured.

  Adam Schlesinger

  Fun, Years, Guy

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• There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase.

  Ian Plimer

  Years, Two, Lasts

  "Climate Change You Can Believe In" by Mark Steyn, www.nationalreview.com. July 25, 2009.

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• There's ten of us, we've been best friends for thirty years. Ten guys. And their wives, and their kids, are all family now. I'm not big on keeping up on the phone, none of us are. Some guys I won't talk to for two months and then you pick up the phone and hear, "So, anyway." There's no guilt or where have you been? or what's been going on? or why haven't we talked? There's an ease to it.

  George Clooney

  Kids, Phones, Years

  "George Clooney: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 13, 2011.

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• I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, Debt

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• It's always been Apple's goal to ship something we were proud of and something people would be proud to own, and I think that's still true from thirty years ago.

  Michael Scott

  Thinking, Years, Apples

  "EXCLUSIVE: Interview With Apple's First CEO Michael Scott". Interview with Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com.au. May 25, 2011.

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• The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.

  Wendy Ewald

  Optimistic, Artist, Years

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