"There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance."
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"Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other."
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"My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot."
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"When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period."
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"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
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"Creation is a sustained period of bliss."
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"Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period."
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"A kaiseki meal is like that, very small courses over a long period of time."
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"I think society, in general, is hard on women, period."
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"Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace."
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"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
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"The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind."
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"The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture."
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"Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period."
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"By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law."
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"He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain."
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"Spring is the Period Express from God."
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"Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously."
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"There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute."
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"Determine when you are most productive when working away from the office, and maximize those periods."
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