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It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty. — Ogden Nash
I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky… — Rob Paulsen
The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty… — Simon Newcomb
I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps. — Dirk Bogarde
Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about… — Olga Korbut
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in… — Robert Frost
September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn. — Robert Lowell
I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a… — Jack Handey
If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just… — Jack Handey
For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex — C.S. Lewis
No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than… — Benjamin Netanyahu
The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is… — Dalai Lama
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God… — Greg Laurie
Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even… — Steve Lopez
Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book. — Howard G. Hendricks
Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as His… — Howard G. Hendricks
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my… — Berkeley Breathed
I have no doubt that over the years my children will find plenty of things about me to criticize. But something tells me that twenty… — Joyce Maynard
The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of… — Charles Gavan Duffy
Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform. — John Barbirolli
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense. — Jorge Luis Borges
The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve… — Warren Buffett

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