Twenty Quotes
1709 Twenty quotes by 1291 unique authors
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In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people…
— Richard Louv
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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
— Alice Paul
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A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty…
— Barry Hughart
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It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
— Hannes Alfven
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Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.
— Robbie Coltraine
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The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it.…
— Art Buchwald
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The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.
— Jonathan Sacks
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Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.
— Lance Armstrong
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We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the…
— Aleksander Kwasniewski
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What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert…
— Alexander Murdoch Mackay
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Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me…
— Alexander Murdoch Mackay
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Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people,…
— Suzanne Somers
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Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.
— William J. Clinton
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of…
— Alan Bennett
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It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
— Belinda Carlisle
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So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
— Nigel Dennis
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What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.
— William Shakespeare
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Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?
— William Shakespeare
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One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level…
— Sebastian Haffner
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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.
— William Wordsworth
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He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.
— Eric Schlosser
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Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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