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• Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

  Peter Benchley

  Sharks, Years, White

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• My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.

  A. P. Herbert

  Golf, Men, Blue

  A.P. Herbert (2014). “Mild And Bitter”, p.20, House of Stratus

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• I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

  Linus Pauling

  Errors, Golden, Twenties

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• The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Hero, Yankees

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• For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

  Jacques Attali

  Twenties, Looks, World

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.3, Manchester University Press

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• Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’

  Peter Thiel

  Running, Fun, Islamic

  "No Death, No Taxes". Interview with George Packer, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2011.

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• In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.

  Philip Gibbs

  Running, Years, Car

  Philip Gibbs (1928). “The Day After To-morrow: What is Going to Happen to the World?”

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• Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood and dreaded in the past, already has begun to become history. Twenty-five hours of Scientology by an auditor who fairly understands how to process arthritis can be said to produce an invariable alleviation of the condition. Some cases, even severe ones, have responded in as little as two hours of processing, according to reports from auditors in the field.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Past, Men, Hands

  Journal of Scientology Issue 1-G, 1952.

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• Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

  Richard Courant

  Struggle, Years, Intellectual

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• Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Years, People, Twenties

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Years, Vision, Doubt

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• Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me in Thy service alone, blessed Saviour.

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Blessed, Men, Years

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• I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Song, Tired, Singing

  Song: Alice's Restaurant Massacree, 1990

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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, Twenties

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

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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, Twenties

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

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• In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Library, Twenties, Example

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Dog

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• I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

  Earl Weaver

  Guy, Twenties, Five

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• I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Years, Twenties, Vegetarian

  "Who I Am, and What I Think". Interview in Frank Harris's periodical "The Candid Friend" (May 1901), later quoted in George Bernard Shaw "Sixteen Self Sketches" (p. 53), 1949, and in Desmond King-Hele, "Shelley: His Thought and Work" (p. 42), 1984.

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• In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from generations of humiliation under foreign occupation, we have accomplished much to our credit, overcome many difficulties and changed the course of our history.

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Country, War, Years

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• Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.

  Paul Newman

  Salad Dressing, Who I Am, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

  Jane Smiley

  Happy Birthday, Winter, Years

  Jane Smiley (2014). “Some Luck: A novel”, p.10, Anchor

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• I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.

  Tom Peters

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

  Patrick Ness

  Men, Years, Becoming

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Real, Twenties, Inquiring

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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