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Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would… — Thomas Paine
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time… — Kurt Vonnegut
Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it. — Henny Youngman
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used… — Theodore Sturgeon
Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. — Malcolm X
I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on… — Thelonious Monk
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. — Emile M. Cioran
Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don't know when… — Gayle Forman
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler… — Tom Clancy
Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words… — C. J. Mahaney
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years… — Vernor Vinge
There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before. — Prince Philip
It has been estimated that of the world Jew population of approximately fifteen millions, no fewer than five million are in the United States. Twenty-five… — Sidney Robertson Cowell
Now, just think, to accuse me of such a crime. Think of it! I, who have for twenty-five years single- handed struggled against the invasion… — Jacob Schiff
She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute… — Ronald Reagan
Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of… — John C. Maxwell
I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Meditation has to spread all over your life. Whatsoever you do, do meditatively. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively. If you are making love, make love meditatively.… — Rajneesh
You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. — Barbara Sher
I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years. — Abdullah ibn Mubarak
We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables. — Unknown Author
The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs.… — Annie Fellows Johnston
There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged… — Stephen Mitchell

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