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  • People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
  • When I was one-and-twenty 
 I heard him say again, 
 The heart out of the bosom 
 Was never given in vain; 
 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty 
 And sold for endless rue. 
 And I am two-and-twenty 
 And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
  • Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
  • Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.
  • By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
  • Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
  • Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
  • As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
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  • Robert Frost A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Muhammad Ali A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Lord George Byron I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Heywood Broun The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Mark Twain Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Charles Dickens Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Barbara Sher ''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • George Burns Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Brigham Young Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Bao Dai As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Anthony Holden As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Allen Tate At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Baltasar Gracián At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Clarence Darrow At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Lord George Byron At twenty three the best of life is over and its bitters double.
    Journal entry of 1811 titled: Four or Five Reasons in Favour of a Change
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Franklin At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Elmore Leonard Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • André Malraux Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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