Planet Earth is estimated to have a lifetime of nine billion years. And we're right smack in the middle of our lifetime. We've been in the universe for 4.5 billion years. So, that should mean something. We should sort of take a look at where we came from and where we are going.

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DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
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Silence doesn't make it... bet...
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MIRIAM AROND Today's children are very opinionated. You have kids that only want to wear pink, or only want to we...
MIRIAM AROND Children's wear is such an important part of the fashion market. Just about every big designer is go...
MIRIAM AROND Touching is extremely exciting for children. It eliminates the distance between children and art.
MIRIAM AROND People are waiting longer to have kids, so they have more disposable income to spend when they final...
MIRIAM AROND Although I have spent this book ranting about supper, you may have noticed that, underneath it all, ...
MIRIAM WEINSTEIN Mummy was absolutely the rock in my life. It was not that I didn't love my father; he was such a...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.
MIRIAM MAKEBA They thought that would silence the opposition. They thought nobody would find out, so we started hi...
MIRIAM LEIVA I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much gr...
MIRIAM MAKEBA I had to put down the violin. It was devastating. . . . But if it hadn't happened I never would have...
MIRIAM BURNS [Tips From a Lunchtime Expert According to lunchtime expert Miriam Jacobs, author of The Brown Bag L...
MIRIAM JACOBS One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and deli...
MIRIAM BEARD Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Th...
MIRIAM BEARD It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, the...
MIRIAM BEARD The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
MIRIAM BEARD She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.
MIRIAM TOEWS قد لا يكون من الشائع الحديث في تلك المسألة، ولكن في الو�...
MIRIAM GROSSMAN I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.
MIRIAM MARGOLYES I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers.
MIRIAM MARGOLYES In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
MIRIAM TOEWS I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young ...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people bei...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES I do wear tails . . . I think it would be distracting to wear a long dress. You have to look ultra-f...
MIRIAM BURNS I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine ...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES I think Britain is a bit class-ridden. People tend to be judged by how rounded their vowels are.
MIRIAM MARGOLYES Where I think the American actor is slightly at a disadvantage is in vocal technique. I don't th...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES Communication is something we all take for granted.
MIRIAM MARGOLYES He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading...
MIRIAM TOEWS I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevi...
MIRIAM TOEWS He would be admitting to himself that life has suddenly become very short, very precious, that soon ...
MIRIAM TOEWS When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restor...
MIRIAM TOEWS There's a strong melancholic streak in me.
MIRIAM MARGOLYES Confidence was the backbone of my upbringing. I was an only child, so I was spoilt, loved, and given...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES

Planet Earth is estimated to have a lifetime of nine billion years. And we're right smack in the middle of our lifetime. We've been in the universe for 4.5 billion years. So, that should mean something. We should sort of take a look at where we came from and where we are going.

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