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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Vladimir Mayakovsky No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.
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  • James A. Froude No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Johnson No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bobby Flay Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
    A Distant Mirror Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Arthur Godfrey Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • A. E. Housman Now, of my threescore years and ten,
    Twenty will not come again,
    And take from seventy springs a score,
    It only leaves me fifty more.

    And since to look at things in bloom
    Fifty springs are little room,
    About the woodlands I will go
    To see the cherry hung with snow.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Helen Hunt Jackson O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Harlan Miller Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
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  • Margaret Oliphant Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Anna H. Shaw On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
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  • Barbara Cook On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
    Barbara Cook
    American actress and singer (1927 - 2017)
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  • Janis Joplin On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
    Janis Joplin
    American singerer (1943 - 1970)
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  • Joan Didion Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bess Myerson Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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