Twenties Quotes - Page 12

• The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Nature, Lying, Years

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2984, e-artnow

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• Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Years, Dancing

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• Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

  Cathy Freeman

  Sports, Running, Peace

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• Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Time, Self, Giving

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• Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is to their own body and contemplate within. Within the body are the nine treasures of the Name of the Lord—seek the depths of these virtues. Those blessed with the karma of good actions praise the Lord and become true devotees

  Guru Angad

  Karma, Blessed, Names

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• You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

  George Lakoff

  Brain, Firsts, Century

  George Lakoff (2008). “The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics”, p.10, Penguin

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• But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Fate, Men, Hands

  Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One”, p.467, Penguin UK

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• Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Four, Hours

  Robert Higgs (2007). “Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government”, Independent Inst

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• Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Two, Three

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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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 cancer.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Years, Taxonomy

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.

  Ogden Nash

  Morning, Dirty, Night

  Ogden Nash (1936). “The bad parents' garden of verse”

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• 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 stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

  Rob Paulsen

  Stars, Years, Lucky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 miles from Washington.

  Simon Newcomb

  Teaching, Fifteen, Miles

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

  Dirk Bogarde

  Years, Temper, Loses

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• 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 things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

  Olga Korbut

  Thank You, Years, Thank God

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• 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 talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.265, Harvard University Press

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• September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

  Robert Lowell

  Apples, Water, Dawn

  Robert Lowell (1955). “Poesie: 1943-1952”

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• 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 what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Holocaust, Effort, Firsts

  "Netanyahu: A Career of Controversy". www.nbcnews.com. March 16, 2010.

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• The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Hands, Order

  "Commemorating The 70th Anniversary Of Liberation", www.ushmm.org.

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• 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 realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Believe, Reality

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• Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Saint, Four, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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• For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

  C. S. Lewis

  Sex, Lying, Past

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• 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 He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.

  Greg Laurie

  Encouragement, Prayer, Thank God

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• 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 more moves, were repeated endlessly. True novelties were becoming scarcer, and sometimes these 'opening' novelties didn't appear until well into the middlegame. (A master-level friend once proudly showed me a novelty he'd discovered at move twenty-seven of a very well-trodden chess opening, and it's said that even as far back as the 1950's Mikhail Botvinnik had some openings memorised past the thirtieth move).

  Steve Lopez

  Moving, Past, Player

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• 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

  Book, Thinking, Messages

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