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for decades doctors never suspected that this "useless" tissue might actually have a use that escaped their detection. The — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them. — Gunter Grass

The thing already looks like its best days were decades ago. — Wendy Mass

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. — David Suzuki

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed. — John Le Carre

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one. — Andre Geim

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. — E.P. Thompson

Maybe I didn't spend decades with you like Lucien did, but I bet I can make you laugh faster than he could. — Holly Black

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. — Nicholas Johnson

Decades of Saddam's rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one. — Chris Kyle

The sad thing is many people learn how to manage money after they've made a lot of financial mistakes, some that take decades to fix. — Michelle Singletary

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better. — Christopher Dodd

The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades. — Hillary Clinton

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that. — Yoshihiko Noda

Building trust takes long- years, sometimes decades. It takes a second, a word, or a misstep to lose it. Regaining trust takes even longer. — Assegid Habtewold

I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans. — Olympia Snowe

I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments. — Jeff Bezos

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country. — Hun Sen

I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38) — Frans De Waal

It appeared, after decades of being without a tribe, that he and his brother had found theirs. — J.R. Ward

Every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment). — G.M. Malliet

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. — Ian Somerhalder

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now. — David Brin

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades. — Jerry Costello

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke. — Victor Davis Hanson

Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors. — Robert A. Caro

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours. — Mark Victor Hansen

Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers — David X. Cohen

Everyone's got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn't noticed. He must have; the population had been dropping for decades. — Peter Watts

One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was. — Emma Donoghue

Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades. — Alison Sweeney

You know as well as I do that the family sitcom was the stalwart of TV for God knows how many decades. — Bill Engvall

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper. — Jim Costa

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet. — Michael Dirda

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. — Dieter Rams

Seeped into his bones from decades of sitting outdoors in — Kamila Shamsie

What a shame for a man like him to be born during peacetime. If he'd been born only a few decades earlier, he'd have worn the mantle of hero, — Mo Yan

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. — Thomas Sowell

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it. — Steve Forbert

I'm happy. I've had a great career. I adore my family. My closest friends from decades ago remain my closest friends. — Cristina Saralegui

Locking minors away for decades doesn't solve anything. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they're paying more in taxes. — Simon Black

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War. — Stephen Kinzer

We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans. — Richie Sambora

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time. — Frank Darabont

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. — Stephen Harper

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades. — Paul Hirsch

A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here. — Ted Cruz

For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules. — John Trudell

there are between life partners sliding layers of history, tectonic plates of it shifting over the decades together. — Helen Simpson

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind. — David Mamet

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore. — Cory Doctorow

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house. — Douglas Coupland

Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!"
(p. 127) — Pete Greig

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way. — Daniel Nathans

Great minds work in similar directions. — Ruth Harris

The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead. — Mary Karr

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more. — Scott Cunningham

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades. — Romesh Gunesekera

He lived decades ago,
she lives at the moment.
A very saddening reality for her. — S G

Parisian cousins nobody has heard from in decades now write letters begging for capons, hams, hens. The dentist is selling wine through the mail. — Anthony Doerr

For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide. — Pat Robertson

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades. — Mitch Kapor

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli. — John Conyers

The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades. — Richard Attias

Within a few decades ... the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine ... — Christopher Flavin

I haven't baked a child in ... decades!
Aunt Maddy from Anbgela's Coven #covenbooks — Bruce Jenvey

How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter. — Bud Selig

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience. — Henry Rollins

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations. — Hermann Weyl

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask. — Richard Bach

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true. — Barack Obama

Another family story is forges, one that father and son will laugh about for decades. This is how a legacy is built. One memory at a time. — Mitch Albom

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. — George Papandreou

As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous. — James Woolsey

She smiled... and let loose a happy scream that seemed to release decades of insecurity, unhappiness, obsessiveness and worry. — Viola Shipman

Strength builds empires that last for decades. Wisdom builds empires that last for centuries. Love builds empires that last forever. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one. — Gary Burton

most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete. — Peter Thiel

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades — Nicholas Stern

I'm proud to say that in my four plus decades of practice, I've found that the overwhelming majority of physicians are good. — Glenn M. Cosh

Edward: After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved. — Stephenie Meyer

Decades of sorrow and loss, he had suffered. And all of them caused by this woman crouching in front of him with his blood on her lips. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades. — William Anthony Donohue

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades. — James Lovelock

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children. — Philip K. Dick

Civilisation is very fragile. All it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. — Amish Tripathi

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections. — Ralph G. Neas

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us, — Douglas Rushkoff

I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything. — Douglas Coupland

For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions. — Najib Razak

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades. — Lauren Groff

After all, I had been waiting decades for it to come. I wanted to escape this world, but only it could help me. — Grace Fiorre

After decades away from the Midwest, she'd forgotten that bewildering generosity was a common regional tic. — J. Ryan Stradal

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves. — Robert Charles Wilson

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process. — Nigel S. Wright

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades. — Frank Moore Colby

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown. — Christopher Paolini

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome. — Bryant H. McGill