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• Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Lonely, Believe, Years

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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• A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch." Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know." "It is a bit.

  Cassandra Clare

  Garden, Thinking, Italian

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

  Melina Marchetta

  Three, Seven, Fronts

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• What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Nine, Six

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• It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Inspirational, Mean, Past

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

  Daniel Silva

  Years, Camping, Desert

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• One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Regret, Feelings, Important

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• I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Anger, Years, Trying

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.66, ShandonPress

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• It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."

  Washington Gladden

  Positive, One Thing

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• The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

  Robert Frost

  Motivational, Jobs, Careers

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• You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Fashion, Rest Of Your Life

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• For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Knowledge, Intuition

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.49, Chartwell

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• If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

  Jim Hightower

  Ignorance, Rights, Dollars

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• ...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

  Mark Twain

  Achievement, Firsts, Dollars

  Mark Twain (2015). “Roughing It: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.327, 谷月社

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• Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Voice, Doubt

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4325, Delphi Classics

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• Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.

  Herman Melville

  Fighting, Fire, Years

  Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd and Other Tales”, p.73, Penguin

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• Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

  Stan Getz

  Art, Piano, Years

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• What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Years, Long, Twenties

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of up to 40%.

  Harry Reid

  Retirement, Cutting, Benefits

  "The New Bush Agenda: A Debate on Social Security with Paul Krugman vs. the American Enterprise Institute". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. February 3, 2005.

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• In a way, the great thing about Batman is that there are so many of him that you can usually find one you like. Often, it's the one that was current when you began following the character. But though you like the Batman of one decade, you may well despise (and not recognize the validity of) the Batman of some other decade. If you've been a fan of the character for forty years, you probably hate half of them.

  Mark Evanier

  Hate, Character, Years

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• About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.

  Tom Clancy

  Running, Country, Destiny

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• Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Work, Teenager, Thinking

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• People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God's Word throughout the day because they know that forty minutes on Sunday is not enough to sustain them for a whole week, especially when they will encounter so many distractions and alternative messages.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Sunday, Intimate Relationships

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.102, David C Cook

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• Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Thinking, Years

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• Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.

  Wally Lamb

  Girl, Sorry, Cancer

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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