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The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission.… — Vincent Bugliosi
I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying in… — Daniel Tammet
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed… — Niles Eldredge
The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart… — James Laver
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems… — Thomas Piketty
I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do… — Carolyn Chute
Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in… — Catherine Crier
I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. — James Drummond Burns
He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in… — Gianfranco Zola
Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole… — Eric Chaisson
Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.”“because I have the members, I have never… — Yoochun
For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for… — Gene Roddenberry
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. — Richard Courant
So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for… — Jean-Paul Sartre
But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to… — H.G. Wells
As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness. — Bao ?ai
For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001. — Zach Wamp
I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard… — Tony Campolo
There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others… — George Bird Grinnell
The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop. — George Vaillant
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. — James Howard Kunstler
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs. — Thomas Sydenham
If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in… — John Kendrick Bangs
Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world move… — Craig Kielburger
The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some… — W. W. Rouse Ball

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