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A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning… — John Shadegg
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning. — Rob Sheffield
Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access… — Michael K. Simpson
Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next.… — Ben Stein
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I… — Daniel Tammet
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. — Arnold J. Toynbee
I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination. — Jesse Ventura
Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms… — James Wolcott
Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the… — Howard Rheingold
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some… — Colm Toibin
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. — Banksy
Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears… — Dean Koontz
I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was… — Thomas Harris
In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am… — Thomas Pynchon
my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my… — E E Cummings
You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament. — Steven Wright
The band has decided to give him and his wife a much needed break from the road to start a life and have a proper… — Gerard Way
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally… — Noam Chomsky
We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it… — Patricia C. Wrede

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