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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up… — Patrick Macnee
More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen
There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the… — Walter Lord
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're… — Ornette Coleman
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing… — Diane Duane
Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a… — Andrew Gross
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword… — Tom Brokaw
It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly… — Elliott Abrams
The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school… — Karl Lehmann
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty… — Ralph Thomas Walker
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns.… — William J. Clinton
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. — Thomas Browne
The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more… — William Shakespeare
With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black! — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I… — Orson Welles
I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years.… — Karen Thompson Walker
Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go… — Shigeru Egami
Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate… — Marcus Aurelius
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. — Newt Gingrich
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for… — Michael Crichton
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for… — Larry David
The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty… — Rahm Emanuel

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