#decade

You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#decadent #god #life #beauty

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#cannot #decades #disputed #interested #jewish

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism. ↗

— David Eagleman

#decade #extremism #first #going #i

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe. ↗

— Charles Vest

#administration #been #between #both #budget

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. ↗

— John Thorn

#back #baseball #birth #booming #both

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#appointing #bench #constitutional #decades #federal

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid? ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#been #behind #century #could #decade

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#business #decade #define #did #happy

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century. ↗

— Al Gore

#21st century #agenda #aids #century #decade

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#continue #decades #durable #even #grow