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Tag Name "Twenties" (1339)

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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
William Osler
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This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name
Mike Shinoda
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
Russell Baker
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Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
William Shakespeare
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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
William Shakespeare
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She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
William Shakespeare
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Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
William Shakespeare
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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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Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.
William Shakespeare
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There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
William Shakespeare
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.
Alan Bradley
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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 circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
Alan Bennett
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I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting
William Shakespeare
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I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.
Barack Obama
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Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
William Shakespeare
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In study at the Mayo Clinic covering fifty consecutive young women with hypothyroidism, twenty-eight has menstrual disturbances. Abnormally profuse menses was a common disturbance frequent bleeding between periods was another in some cases, both problems were present. Thyroid therapy relived the disturbances.
Broda Otto Barnes
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I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: You have to fight fire with fire so that I could reply, That's funny-I always use water.
Howard Gossage
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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!
Nhat Hanh
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As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.
Melinda McGraw
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...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.
Al Gore
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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.
William Wordsworth
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Twenty days ago my physio asked me if I was if I never think that I can win a Grand Slam or be in final of Grand Slam, and I said no.
Flavia Pennetta
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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
Winston Churchill
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I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.
Agnes Varda
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