Twenty Quotes

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The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. — John Jay Chapman
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. — Woody Allen
The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water. — Ismail Serageldin
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain… — Aberjhani
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something… — Aberjhani
Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you… — Unknown Author
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing. — W. W. Rouse Ball
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years… — Paulo Coelho
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. — Eddie Cantor
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. — Unknown Author
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to… — Thomas Jefferson
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty,… — J C Ryle
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and… — Elie Wiesel
I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in… — Andy Grove
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle… — Malcolm X
The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder… — Colman McCarthy
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something… — Unknown Author
It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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