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It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.


Jostein Gaarder

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UNKNOWN Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop....
NINA GEORGE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an internat...
LEON PANETTA It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
ZIGGY MARLEY It takes quite a few years to train a jumper.
AMARA PACKWOOD It only takes but one seed of peace, to create a forrest.
ROBERT M. HENSEL Becoming a student only takes seconds, but becoming a master takes a lifetime.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. Bu...
MELINA MARCHETTA It only lasted six weeks. We were happy to move back. It takes couple of months to build a house; it...
JAMES BELL Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
ALLEN KLEIN A single step of daring can alter whole conception of life, a life full of challenge & adventure. Wi...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.
OWEN D. YOUNG It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove.
OWEN D. YOUNG It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove.
OWEN D. YOUNG It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
OWEN D. YOUNG It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER In most cases, it takes only a few minor adjustments to dramatically improve performance.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound c...
H. L. MENCKEN It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound c...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It takes a leader to create the momentum, it takes a vision to direct the momentum, it takes a massi...
FARSHAD ASL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, con...
STANLEY KUBRICK It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and...
SEAN PATRICK Credibility takes years to build, but a few hours to destroy.
EIVIND REITEN It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.
MARY E. PEARSON It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y...
HENRY WARD BEECHER It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.
M.F. MOONZAJER Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD It takes a great client to create great architecture.
CURTIS W. FENTRESS It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sou...
H. L. MENCKEN It takes not a few centuries, or even millenniums, but millions of years for a subtle evolutionary c...
ABHIJIT NASKAR A moment is all it takes to create a purposeful connection.
KēVENS It takes one concept of imagination to create a whole world of reality.
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DAVE CARINI A balanced budget takes us in the right direction. Clearly, adding billions and trillions of dollars...
TIM JOHNSON It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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DEAN CAVANAGH It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
LEONARD ORR It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income
LEONARD ORR Don't ever reject a small
when you can't take it all.
TOBA BETA In the end, the truth will prevail. Good and evil keep at war.
Whichever wins, future will beli...
TOBA BETA Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all ov...
EVAN ESAR He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes somethi...
BILL GATES 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel...
JAMES C. DOBSON It takes just a few thoughts of the people to know who they are actually, but only to a person who i...
ANUJ SOMANY It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to ma...
D. W. GRIFFITH It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don...
VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN It only takes one smile to offer welcome...and blessed be the person who will share it.
It only ...
AMANDA BRADLEY It only takes living together for atleast three years to begin to know another person.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is easy to do good, but it takes a lifetime to become human!
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and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD It usually takes us a few innings to adjust to the pitcher's speed.
MANDY GOODWIN it only takes sparks to light a fire
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER It takes enough courage to accept the truth and it takes only truth to accept the courage.
ANUJ SOMANY It only takes a specialist to become a generic.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The products are getting better in Detroit, but it takes a lot longer than a few quarters or even a ...
DAN GORRELL We are simply two good people with equally flawed pasts, looking for perfect futures. And I think we...
K.A. TUCKER It only takes record keeping to have a heart of gratitude.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It takes two to tango, but it only takes one to fuck up the dance.
CHRISTINE DANIELLE PLATT It takes two for a kiss Only one for a sigh, Twain by twain we marry One by one we die.
FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.
JASON MRAZ It may take a lifetime for an individual to live, but it takes just under four seconds for the occup...
BRADLEY SOMER It takes a few years to intellectually map that region. Eventually, you form a picture of the territ...
KENNETH KATZMAN I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
TAMARA MELLON After all, it takes 18 to 20 years to 'grow a child.'
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Being a 14-year-old kid, it's a shock to their system. It drains their batteries, and it takes them ...
MATT DINEEN It took time for me to search my heart for it. Cannot just write a song over-night, you got to feel ...
DARREN BENITEZ It only takes big thinking to be a friend of the infinite.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14...
AVI Life hits you hard. But it takes you three seconds to decide if you are a superhero or not. I am.
HRITHIK ROSHAN It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
HERBERT SAMUEL It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
HERBERT SAMUAL It takes so much work and effort to rise to the top yet it takes only one mistake to fall down.
LIZZIE LEEZY But it only takes one person to make a change.
GOLDIE CHANEY I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD Sometimes being different is all it takes to make a difference.
HENRY BUELL Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER He's such a hard worker. He'll do whatever it takes to not only make himself better, but whatever it...
DELBERT TENGAN It only takes a cup of gasoline to destroy a million gallons of drinking water.
JENNIFER MIETH It's hard to break a drought. It takes a number of wet years. We need rain. And we need it now.
ALLEN SPELCE It is strange to see a human being has two faces! The second one always takes excuses from the first...
DEVASKI A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thoug...
RAGNAR FRISCH The moment WE realize our mistakes, our sins, our selfishness, the trouble we gave others, the pain ...
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