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Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

Jay Leno

War, Years, Political

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Twelve years ago me and Allanah became really sick of writing pop songs, ... Eventually we dug a grave for the Thompson Twins, pushed them in there, and then moved to New Zealand. Before that I'd lived for a long time in south London where reggae was the music of the streets around me. You'd hear it booming out of people's windows and shops, and you could buy great old reggae singles for 50p (NZ1.30) in second hand shops. I'd always loved that sound, so soon after we got here I started making electronic dub records with my mate Rakai Karaitiana as International Observer.

Tom Bailey

Song, Writing, Hands

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Prospects for growth in the year ahead are solid at the national level, and of course, this can only be good news for the Bay Area and California as well. The U. S. economy has shown remarkable resilience in the face of some severe shocks - in particular, the surge in energy prices that began a couple of years ago and the devastation wrought by the twin hurricanes last summer.

Janet Yellen

Summer, Couple, California

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They've got a great team, I really like them. They're a young team, and they've done what the Twins did in that division a few years ago. This is what happens when you get a core group of guys and let them play with each other for three, four years. You get a special bunch. They're having fun you can see it.

Eddie Guardado

Fun, Team, Years

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I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

David Campese

Years, Firsts, Rugby

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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Kate Adie

Years, Nastiness, Literature

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A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.

Tim Cook

Years, Entrepreneur, Realizing

"Apple's encryption battle with the FBI has implications well past the iPhone" by Sam Thielman, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2016.

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It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?

Bill Hicks

Life Changing, Drinking, Night

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Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.

Burt Rutan

Future, Simple, Should Have

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Kids have little computer bodies with disks that store information. They remember who had to do the dishes the last time you had spaghetti, who lost the knob off the TV set six years ago, who got punished for teasing the dog when he wasn't teasing the dog and who had to wear girls boots the last time it snowed.

Erma Bombeck

Girl, Dog, Kids

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Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Mary Wesley

Running, Years, Car

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In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago

William J. Clinton

Real, Stupid, Humorous

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Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

Jeff Gannon

War, Years, America

Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc

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My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

Namie Amuro

Years, Trying, Three

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One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I urged you and pleaded with you that, so far as the Church and its membership were concerned, we do not soil our hands with the bounteous outpouring of funds which the government was giving unto us. I renew that plea now. My brethren and sisters, for the sake of the government which we love, for the sake of the government which we believe was divinely inspired, be honest with it. Be honest, just ordinarily gold honest. That is all I ask.

J. Reuben Clark

Believe, Hands, Years

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I believe that it is my duty and your duty to teach our children concerning this great God-inspired Constitution, this great law of liberty which he has given to this world, and which was never given before to any nation in any land. Never before has there been a representative government of this kind. Republics have been tried, hundreds of times, thousands of years ago, but never was there anything like this Government.

Charles W. Nibley

Children, Believe, Government

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Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there were no swipe fees at all. Merchants can't negotiate or control them. They've tried, but they have no leverage against the big banks and issuers. So they get ignored.

Peter Welch

Years, Cards, Ignored

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The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.

Thomas Hoving

Art, Years, Fifty

Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he has never improved on God's law. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

Cecil B. DeMille

Men, Expression, Years

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The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .

Learned Hand

Years, Two, Liberty

Brainerd Currie, Learned Hand, United States. Supreme Court (1953). “The Supreme Court: an NBC radio discussion”

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Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.

Arto Lindsay

Thinking, Dna, Years

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I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed.

David Heyman

Kids, Naughty, Thinking

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Seven years ago when I came, I said to you that I'll teach you how to be healthy, happy and holy and we will build a family which shall not have any facet of human life as an orphan; to build an exclusive family in which there is no facet of our life which is an orphan. 'In God we trust,' We are the trust of God and let us live it.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Love, Family, Years

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A few years ago we said, 'Hail Guru Ram Das and heal the world.' It looked like a joke at that time. Heal with what? Now the Age has come when your own psyche can be in flow and beam on the other personality, and in the cross-exchange you can heal a person just by walking by his side. For this we have to have a mental clarity, and we have to have a mental projection.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Healing, Years, Personality

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Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

Gaylord Nelson

Years, Atmosphere, Environmental

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