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Decades go faster toward the end of a century. -- Hortense Calisher
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. -- Jeff Merkley
Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him - -- Emily Dickinson
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods. -- Thomas Boswell
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Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted. -- Jerry Saltz
Decades of providing technology in growing volume and at decreasing costs have driven great gains for developing nations, communities and people worldwide, but there is still much to do. -- Paul Otellini
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse . -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
I love New York. But how much should it cost to call New York home? Decades of out-of-control budgets, spending hikes, and relentless borrowing have made New York simply too expensive. -- Tom Golisano
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood. -- Patti Davis
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. -- David Suzuki
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. -- Thomas Sowell
Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed. -- J. G. Ballard
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. -- Pankaj Mishra
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view. -- Paul Farmer
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not. -- Henry W. Kendall
The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. -- Timothy Noah
I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business. -- Valentino Garavani
I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. -- Kevin Costner
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. -- Reza Aslan
Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports. -- Simon Mainwaring
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. -- Mahmoud Abbas
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. -- Abdul Kalam
Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another. -- Simon Mainwaring
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades. -- Gary Miller
I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric. -- Michio Kaku
Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather. -- Kristina McMorris
Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often called the poor man's atomic bomb. Saddam Hussein is the ruler who has for decades been making the most determined and diabolical illegal effort to acquire them. -- William Shawcross
We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society. -- Simon Mainwaring
Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him. -- Paul Watson
Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. -- Angela Merkel
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades. -- Vladimir Putin
My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. -- Marco Rubio
The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith. -- Ronnie Musgrove
At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic. -- Renee Fleming
I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot. -- Gina Bellman
Nature stopped being natural decades ago. -- Jamais Cascio
Locking minors away for decades doesn't solve anything. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I have been recording for five decades now. -- Chuck Mangione
Black people have been working hard for decades. -- Cornel West
The Italian economy has been held back for decades. -- Mario Monti
Not taking jailbirds has been our policy for decades -- Bryan Hilferty
Nobody's tried to touch my hair in like, in decades. -- Susan Rice
The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand. -- Jake Shimabukuro
In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead. -- Kushal Pal Singh
The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades. -- Hillary Clinton
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. -- Lebbeus Woods
Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers -- David X. Cohen
Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it. -- Steve Forbert
Rock and roll has had a powerful anti-Christian subtheme for decades now. -- D. James Kennedy
I have been underestimated for decades. I've done very well that way. -- Helmut Kohl
I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years. -- Sloane Crosley
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. -- Christopher Lasch
For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better. -- Christopher Dodd
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations. -- Hermann Weyl
For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas. -- Lee H. Hamilton
Edward: "After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved. -- Stephenie Meyer
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. -- Ian Somerhalder
Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve. -- Garrison Keillor
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. -- Vladimir Lenin
Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine... -- Christopher Flavin
Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course. -- Thomas Frank
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. -- Arthur Levitt Jr
I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades. -- Paul Hirsch
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. -- Arthur Levitt Jr
I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference. -- Liz Carpenter
A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come. -- Barack Obama
I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving. -- Adam Savage
We talked about all the decades to come and how they would never be enough. -- C.J. English
We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes. -- Christopher Hitchens
But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with. -- Ann Coulter
For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide. -- Pat Robertson
We've been living under outdated immigration rules from decades ago. They're decades and decades old. -- Donald Trump
Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country. -- Hun Sen
You can't not be a little different from others and be successful for three decades. -- Charlie Sheen
Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours. -- Mark Victor Hansen
He lived decades ago,she lives at the moment.A very saddening reality for her. -- S G
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs. -- Stewart D. Friedman
During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries. -- Toshihiko Fukui
It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild. -- Alan Autry
Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern. -- Thomas Nagel
I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist. -- Matt Stone
There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades. -- Tom Vilsack
The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world. -- Conrad Black
The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now. -- David Brin
Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work. -- Paul Kagame
I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young. -- Paul Auster
Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world. -- Eliot Engel
I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind. -- David Mamet
An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience. -- Henry Rollins
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place. -- Katharine Graham
We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades. -- Joe Biden
I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades. -- Peter Asher
There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades. -- Juan Williams
For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory. -- Edmund Phelps
I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it. -- Mark Millar
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades. -- Adam McKay
We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans. -- Richie Sambora
Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades. -- Jurgen Habermas
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. -- Roger Rosenblatt
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. -- Erma Bombeck
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off. -- Robert Reich
It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young. -- Bruce Forsyth
In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history. -- Sylvia Earle
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas. -- Norman Lock
Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades. -- James Lovelock
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades. -- Viggo Mortensen
For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people. -- Dick Van Patten
Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades -- Nicholas Stern
Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically. -- David Barton
Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming. -- Jamais Cascio
It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines. -- Gwen Ifill
We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one. -- Paul Gillmor
I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past. -- Martin Feldstein
More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way. -- George W. Bush
Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny. -- Mike Pence

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