Twenty Quotes

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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows… — Mahatma Gandhi
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and… — Jules Feiffer
She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar,… — William Shakespeare
Saying "I'll start managing my money as soon as I get caught up" is like an overweight person saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as… — T. Harv Eker
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,… — Aldo Leopold
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways… — Lewis Thomas
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the… — Eric Temple Bell
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human… — Irving Langmuir
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel… — Sri Chinmoy
It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the mind, it can… — Rajneesh
And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major… — Rajneesh
I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing… — Rowan Atkinson
I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages,… — Harmon Killebrew
My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one. — Bob Hope
The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of oÂne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured,… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Golf courses are becoming far too long. Twenty years ago we played three rounds of golf a day and considered we had taken an interminably… — Alister MacKenzie
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. — Unknown Author
She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome… — Elisabeth Elliot

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