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• My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

  Dean Kamen

  Running, Years, Worry

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• The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.

  Michio Kaku

  Symphony, Space, Years

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Years, Differences, Making A Difference

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• What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Years, Afternoon, Next

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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• The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cute, Time, Years

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• It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

  Donald Cargill

  Sight, Years, Long

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• Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

  Niels Bohr

  Technology, Years, Opposites

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• While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Hero, Home, Moon

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Aug 05, 2011

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• Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

  Nick Hornby

  Dad, Years, Monkeys

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.314, Penguin

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• What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Confused, Fall, Said Life

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.70, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

  Neal Stephenson

  Sports, Men, Years

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.56, Spectra

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• Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.

  Kim Harrison

  Years, Grass, Thirty

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• The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Years, Drawing, Done

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• sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

  Tao Lin

  Beautiful, Distance, Years

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• I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.

  Jason F. Wright

  Years, Waiting, Heaven

  Jason F. Wright (2007). “The Wednesday Letters: A Novel”

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• Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Depressing, Years, Bob

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• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Happy Birthday

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

  Kristin Hannah

  Heart, Years, Broken

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away”, p.336, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.

  Tim O'Brien

  Moving, Dark, Years

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

  Stephen King

  Laughter, Thinking, Years

  Stephen King (1999). “Hearts In Atlantis”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.

  George Orwell

  Children, Years, Singing

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Thinking, Years

  "The Notebook". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

  Doris Lessing

  Wise, Years, Etc

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years

  James A. Baldwin

  Years, People, Lobster

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• I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Italian, Years

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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