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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

I've known Roger Ailes for 15 years, and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect.

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Over the years I have come to understand three things about the police: 1) They cover up virtually everything involving a police officer. 2) They will not enforce the laws for people that they do not like. 3) They will target people that they do not like for prosecution using various techniques that include unwarranted stops, drug testing, faked police reports, tickets, fines, blatantly mislead the judge at court, and removal of USA federal rights.