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It was in 1969 that I was able to give up my administrative responsibility. As I worked hard my research never suffered during this period and as a matter of fact these were probably some of my most productive years.

Quote by George Andrew Olah about research

And that's what's so inspirational about something like Dionysus. It actually records the moment that it happened. Kind of like a document of the period.

Quote by Brian De Palma about inspiration, moment

I have never used steroids, period.

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about opinion

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

Quote by Evan Parker about age, question, contentment

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.

Quote by John Dos Passos about nation, people

And I have lived since as you have in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about opinion, war, destruction, technology, tragedy, science, peace, contentment

Childhood the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about childhood, youth, sin, age, olderness, human imperfections, life

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

Quote by Pierre Cardin about good luck, war

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

Quote by James Tobin about economy, revolution

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Quote by Norman Kingsley Mailer about revolution, history

Peace. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about peace, cheating

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely...

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt about age, olderness, youth, life