"Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day."
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"Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj."
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"The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one."
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"I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety."
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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."
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"Nowadays you can no longer let yourself be indoctrinated - the world is changing so fast! Even what you wanted twenty years ago is no longer relevant today; it's outdated."
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"Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it."
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"There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty."
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"The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of a woman of twenty no matter how much she might lust for her."
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"We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet."
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"Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!"
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"It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day."
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"She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice."
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"For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window."
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"I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian."
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"You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy"
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"If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!"
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"The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]"
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"Let him grow taller,she asked the gods.Let him know sixteen, and twenty, and fifty. Let him grow as tall as his father, and hold his own son in his arms. Please, please, please."
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"He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England."
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