Quotes with forty

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  • Charles de Gaulle How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Tony Benn I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Ann Druyan I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Mick Jagger I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    French painter (1841 - 1919)
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  • William Somerset Maugham If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Anna Quindlen If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Stephen Leacock It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Abraham Pais Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Will Rogers One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Woody Allen Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bob Hope She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Agnes Smedley So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Buffalo Bill Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Sir William Osler Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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