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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.

Pete du Pont

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time.

Sarah Polley

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Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.