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An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

Reginald Fessenden

Art, Mean, Years

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The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Aristotle

Science, Years, Mind

Rhetoric II.xiv

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For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.

Steven Chu

Education, Science, Garden

"Steven Chu - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use.

Thomas A. Edison

New York, Science, Light

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Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.

Willem de Kooning

Art, Years, Finishing

Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

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I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

Teri Hatcher

Mom, Daughter, Mother

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My daughter hasn't seen me with anybody in five years. I'm very, very selective when it comes to that because I want to make sure that it's real. I don't want her to see me with just anybody because she means everything to me.

Brandy Norwood

Daughter, Mother, Real

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Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.

Ron Fairly

Funny, Years, Ideas

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If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

Edouard Daladier

Military, War, Fighting

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There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

Anthony Kennedy

Gay, Years, Substance

"“A Historic Moment”: California Couple on Decades-Long Legal Struggle for Marriage Equality". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 27, 2013.

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Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

Clement Mok

Technology, Years, Internet

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Five years from the date of the attack that changed our world, we've come back to remember the valor of those we lost-those who innocently went to work that day and the brave souls who went in after them. We have also come to be ever mindful of the courage of those who grieve for them, and the light that still lives in their hearts.

Rudy Giuliani

Powerful, Heart, Grieving

"Your World Today", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2006.

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When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.

Fulton J. Sheen

Blessed, Years, People

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A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much thinking or problem solving of military significance. That would leave, say, five years to develop man-computer symbiosis and 15 years to use it. The 15 may be 10 or 500, but those years should be intellectually the most creative and exciting in the history of mankind.

J. C. R. Licklider

Military, Science, Men

J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

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If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

Harry Browne

War, Men, Years

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Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

Marcel Achard

Funny, Women, Passion

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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

Years, Goal, Twenties

"Earth in the Balance". Book by Al Gore, June, 1992.

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I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

Anton Chekhov

Reading, Years, Editors

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During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.

J. K. Rowling

Book, Writing, Years

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You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

Dexter Holland

Average, Years, People

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Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

Desmond Tutu

Years, Knowing, People

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Heating bills this winter are the highest they've been in five years, but President Bush has a plan to combat rising bills. It's called global warming.

Jay Leno

Winter, Years, President

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There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Eric Hoffer

Years, Effort, Individuality

Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

Peter Drucker

Strength, Attitude, Years

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In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.

Yosef Abramowitz

Years, Pace, Global Warming

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