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"After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over." »Alfred Edward Perlman
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"Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them." »Brittany Murphy
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"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet." »Bruce Sterling
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"Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying." »Irish Proverb
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"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father." »Clifton Paul Fadiman
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"For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late." »J. R. Platt
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"years later, people look back upon their darkest day and say -- as Churchill said of London's war years -- 'This was our finest hour.' In a tough spot right now You may be on the very edge of winning" »Guy Lynch
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"A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating." »Arnold Bennett
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"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." »Samuel Ullman
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"Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world." »Dave Barry
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"A few years ago I made a New years Resolution never to make another New years Resolution again and so far it's the only one that I have actually kept." »Tom Zegan
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"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does." »Lewis Blaine Hershey
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"A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party" »Les Brown
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"I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got." »Richard M. Nixon
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"I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune." »Jerry Della Femina
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"Now the real beginnings of the 'freedom' which we have discussed for many years--and a heady freedom it is, coming after so many years of reaching outward for it--to finally discover all I had to do was reach inward, and it was there waiting all the time for me" »Alisa Wells
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"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years." »John Burroughs
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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock." »Orson Welles
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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." »Orson Welles
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"I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul." »Douglas MacArthur
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"I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift." »Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
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"My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years." »Cathy Ladman
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"When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort." »E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
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"Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out." »Manley E. Rogers
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"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind." »Albert Einstein
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"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." »Abraham Lincoln
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"If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people." »Chinese Proverb
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