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• His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

  William Manchester

  Courage, Two, Twenties

  William Manchester (1983). “American Caesar”, Laurel

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• While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Cancer, Writing, Two

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• Twenty-two suicides a day from our veterans. Do you believe that number? Twenty-two a day.

  Donald Trump

  Suicide, Believe, Two

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Eggs, Two

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

  Malcolm X

  Organization, Two, Twenties

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Almost any age is better than twenty-two.

  David Rakoff

  Two, Age, Twenties

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• Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.”“because I have the members, I have never felt lonely.

  Yoochun

  Lonely, Years, Two

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• I'm greedier than anyone. I don't want some half-assed happiness I
  don't need some partial warmth. I want a happiness that goes on forever.
  That's impossible, though! I don't know why it is, but in this world,
  some interference is sure to come. Important things break right away.
  I've been alive for twenty-two years, and I know at least this much. It
  doesn't matter what the thing is, but it will break. That's why, from the
  beginning, it's better not to need anything.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Years, Two, Forever

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• I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

  John Fogerty

  Kids, Years, Break Through

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• Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

  John Barbirolli

  Music, Baby, Two

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• We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.

  Michael Frayn

  Country, Children, Men

  "Copenhagen". Play by Michael Frayn, May 21, 1998.

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• If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

  Luis Bunuel

  Dream, Years, Two

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.86, Random House

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• All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two young men rushing about in mysterious formations, and whatever he brought in his flask.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Sight, Air

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• So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

  William Adams

  Japan, Two, Gnarly

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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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• Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, War, Party

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• To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

  J. B. Priestley

  Soccer, Men, Two

  Good Companions (1929) bk. 1, ch. 1

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• It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.

  Bob Seger

  Writing, Years, Two

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• The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Independent, Unique, Islands

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.

  Eugene Richards

  Two, Order, Years

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• The night I turned twenty-two, I drank a shot for every year. I was so drunk, I'd just walk up to people in the bar and hit them in the balls. My friends drove me home and left me propped up on the couch holding a bucket. I woke up with vomit all over me. The bucket was clean as a whistle.

  Jon Stewart

  Home, Night, Years

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• When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.

  Matt Dillon

  Cheating, Hurt, Girlfriend

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• I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat!

  Muhammad Ali

  Kings, Real, Years

  "Sound and Fury : Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship". Book by Dave Kindred, 2007.

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• On my first bowhunt on the property a few years back, I was on my own for twenty-two days and killed an amazing thirty-three head of big game. I'm surprised I even came home. I was in heaven.

  Ted Nugent

  Home, Years, Games

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• I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages, ERAs and other statistics. Fame, notoriety and the bright lights fade quickly. To me, true success in life would be to develop both physically and spiritually to our fullest and to endure to the end!

  Harmon Killebrew

  Life, Success, Baseball

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