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I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because… — William J. Clinton
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. — Jonathan Swift
A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours. — Mark Twain
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was… — Mark Twain
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt. — Walter Scott
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time. — Jay Leno
Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral… — Jay Leno
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to… — Alexander Pope
We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because… — Agatha Christie
The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters… — Warren Spahn
I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of… — Eduardo Galeano
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile… — William Godwin
I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having… — Claude Monet
Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will… — Brenda Ueland
You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and… — Lady Randolph Churchill
In preparing a study or a picture, it seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values... and to continue… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations. — Chuck Hagel
I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud… — Robert Rauschenberg
The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will… — Georg Brandes
We have, without any fanfare or much conversation, moved into a era in which news organizations are expected to explain themselves. Twenty years ago, it… — Alex Jones
Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot… — Bill Wyman

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