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If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

— Joseph Joffre

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— James Righton

And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler…

— Douglas Coupland

When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher,…

— Woody Harrelson

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— Dan Mathews

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— P. J. O'Rourke

In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide,…

— David Cross

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm,…

— Leigh Mitchell Hodges

I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New…

— Meghan Daum

One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym…

— Carmen Electra

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— Robert Orben

We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There…

— Abraham Lincoln

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as…

— Eric Schlosser

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— Jerry Saltz

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty…

— Nikita Khrushchev