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• Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

  Walter Mosley

  Girl, Children, Two

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Devil in a Blue Dress: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• The heavens were the grandstands and only the gods were spectators. The stake was the world, the forfeit was the player's place at the table, and the game had no recess. It was the most dangerous of all sports and the most fascinating. It got in the blood like wine. It aged men forty years in forty days. It ruined nervous systems in an hour.

  Elliott White Springs

  Sports, Wine, Player

  Elliott White Springs, A. Roy Brown, Floyd Phillips Gibbons, Norman Shannon Hall (1929). “Pilots' Luck”

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• Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

  Stefan Zweig

  Philosophical, Race, Years

  "The Struggle with the Demon". Book by Stefan Zweig, transl. by Marion Sonnenfeld, p. 256, 1929.

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• Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the mentalities of six-year-olds, and my feeling is that they should not see such pictures, either.

  Shirley Temple

  Believe, Men, Years

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• If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because youre likely to win?

  Michael Badnarik

  Winning, Giving, Fifty

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• Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don't see highly successful people clocking out of the office every afternoon at five. The losers are the ones caught up in that afternoon rush hour. The winners drive home in the dark.

  Neal Boortz

  Home, Successful, Dark

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• After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

  Benjamin Bloom

  School, Years, World

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom, Lauren A. Sosniak (1985). “Developing talent in young people”

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• Of course, personally, I think it'd be tacky to wear diamonds before I'm forty.

  Holly Golightly

  Thinking, Tacky, Breakfast At Tiffanys

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• It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Morning, Men, Squad

  Frederick Forsyth (1995). “The day of the jackal ; The dogs of war”

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• I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

  Pat Mora

  Age, Saws, Good Writers

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• The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

  Aristide Briand

  Heart, Men, Twenties

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• The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Men, Order

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• I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.

  Tony Hoare

  Pain, Errors, Years

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• In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. [...] The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Country, War, Order

  "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism". Essay by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, www.marxists.org. 1917.

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• Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn't only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It's the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space with wonder, just as we do.

  Frank Drake

  Stars, Lying, Home

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• One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.

  James Dobson

  Meaningful, Prayer, Years

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• Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk

  John Lewis

  Music, Innovation, Dizzy

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• Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Self, Age

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• The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Stress, Book, Years

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• I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such a long time. James Dean became a star in one calendar year, and then he left us. But he's still being talked about, he's still being revered, he's still being iconized forty years later. I don't think there's another example like it in the entire history of movies.

  Leonard Maltin

  Stars, Thinking, Years

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• All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.

  Yukio Mishima

  Writing, Expression, Years

  "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters". Biography, www.imdb.com. September 12, 1985.

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• Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Waste, Understood

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• I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

  Jane Rule

  Voice, Wake Up, Frightened

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• Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns. If the business earns six percent on capital over forty years and you hold it for that forty years, you're not going to make much different than a six percent return - even if you originally buy it at a huge discount. Conversely, if a business earns eighteen percent on capital over twenty or thirty years, even if you pay an expensive looking price, you'll end up with one hell of a result.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Long, Twenties

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• I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.

  Nancy Johnson

  Mean, Differences, World

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