Twenty Quotes
1709 Twenty quotes by 1291 unique authors
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You either like me or you don't. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to…
— Unknown Author
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Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we…
— William J. Clinton
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never…
— Ezra Pound
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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how…
— Mark Twain
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When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
— Benjamin Franklin
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In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the…
— Ralph Miller
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
— Henry David Thoreau
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels,…
— John Ruskin
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Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for…
— Rajneesh
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and…
— J. B. Priestley
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly…
— Vaclav Havel
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I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the…
— Chris Corrigan
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
— Andre Gide
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty
— James Anthony Froude
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Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly.…
— Walter Benjamin
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Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
— William Shakespeare
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Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow,…
— Mary Howitt
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