"Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid"
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"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
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"An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it."
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"Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
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"Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man."
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"Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours."
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"I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty."
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"I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that."
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"In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman."
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"The moment you wake up, right away, you can smile... You are aware that a new day is beginning, that life is offering you twenty-four brand new hours to live, and that that's the most precious of gifts."
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"Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t enough, Michael then went and single-handedly revolutionized music videos. It’s amazing that today, some twenty-five years later, everyone who makes a pop music video still feels obligated to include a 'group dance' sequence like the one Michael pioneered in 'Beat It'. That’s how influential and ahead of the times he was."
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"In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life."
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"Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool."
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"I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace."
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"What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?"
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"Tis now the twenty-third of march, And this warm sun takes out the starch Of winter's pinafore - Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks A health to spring, and while it sips It faintly smacks a myriad lips."
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"I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it."
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"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."
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"Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late."
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"A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again."
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