- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reduced marginal tax rates on individuals and business fosters growth every time.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long time ago, I watched President Reagan repeat a few simple points about the benefits for everyone of lower taxes, light regulations, and limited government. Successful policies are sold by repetition, not unrelated tangents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a person who has a hard time saying no, and it gets me into trouble because I sometimes overreach.
- Argued
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- Nov 07, 2020
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.
- Bubbling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
- Intelligent
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- Nov 07, 2020
By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time there's a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump called for the closing of borders to Muslims; John McCain said, in response to the President's address on the San Bernardino shooting, that 'this is the war of our time.' As that shooting shows, we react to terrorism with far more intensity than we do to an ordinary crime.
- Celebrity Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent most of my adult life in the United States, and there the celebrity culture has been entrenched for a long time. It has made people almost literally insane, even those who make a great show of repudiating it. Those people, like novelists, who can no longer enjoy this status are condemned to despise it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.
- Prosperity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020