Barack Obama Quotes, Eight Quotes, Years Quotes

One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.

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As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Eight Quotes , Years Quotes

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Years Quotes , Europe Quotes

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

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You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Years Quotes

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

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Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

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[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Years Quotes

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

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Tags : Alan Arkin Quotes , Years Quotes , Judging Quotes

My sister is 4 years older than me and I've always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.

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Tags : Aeriel Miranda Quotes , Girl Quotes , Years Quotes

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Years Quotes

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Eye Quotes , Years Quotes

It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Love Quotes , Years Quotes

On a certain day, month and year one should observe the ceremony of tree-planting. Thus, one fulfils one's responsibilities, serves one's fellow-beings which not only brings happiness but benefits all.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Years Quotes

In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.

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I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

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Tags : Agnes Repplier Quotes , Confused Quotes , Years Quotes

I believe that when you stop renewing and are no longer open to change and the possibilities that continually unfold, you stop being alive and are just getting through the years. Transformation doesn't happen unless you're willing: It's your choice.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Believe Quotes , Years Quotes

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

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Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Years Quotes , Church Quotes