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“Thirty years ago, if you wanted to start a campaign against or for something, you had to print flyers, you had to make a million phone calls. Remember presidential campaigns and stuff? It was a very laborious thing. Now we can literally talk to each other in a nanosecond.”

Ifs Years Wanted Remember Stuff Millions Years Ago Phones Campaigns Presidential Thirty Print Thirty Years Phone Calls Presidential Campaign Flyers

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Thirty years ago, interracial marriage was considered to be wrong by the laws of God. Now your society finds it common. The spiritual objections around it were either dropped or "rewritten" by those divinely inspired and authorized to do so. Therefore, your actual interpretations of the instructions from God changed with your society's tolerance level - an interesting thing, indeed, how the interpretations of God seem to change regularly to match a changing culture!”

“Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.”

Years Kind Today Pay Cost Years Ago Argument Thirty Minors Economist Inflation Reducing Thirty Years Inconvenience

Author:Martin Feldstein

“Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.”

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.”

Years Hard Facts Internet Years Ago Boxes Planes Thirty Thirty Years Facts Of Life Pandora Pandora's Box

Author:Christine Sneed

“Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife”

Men Feels Years Women Differences Wife He Man Huge Men And Women Years Ago Thirty Scare Thirty Years Protector Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Robin Tunney

“Thirty years of marriage to Erasto had taught her much, namely that men were reckless by nature, full of bluster, most incompetent, the rest fortunate to have a wife to keep them from allowing their innate ineptitude to engulf all around them.”

Love Hate Marriage Humour Men And Women Womanhood

Author:A. H. Septimius

Source: Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle

“Thirty years of spiritual practice has given me the realization that emotions are based on our perceptions, whether or not they are based on reality.”

Years Reality Spiritual Given Emotion Practice Perception Realization Thirty Thirty Years Spiritual Practice

Author:Michael Beckwith

“Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them.”

People Giving Years Has Beens Ends Government Party Asking Immigration Thirty Thirty Years Lawlessness

Author:Jeff Sessions

“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.”

Years Children Different Wanted Mother Social Genius Years Ago Doctors Bottom Lawyer Scales Cooks Thirty Architect

Author:Jacques Pepin

“Thirty, I really like you but I still have to see other people.”

People Stills Like You Thirty Really Like You

Author:Rita Rudner

“Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.”

Funny Waiting Sound Five Meaningful Thirty Birthday Forty 40th Birthday Without A Trace

Author:Evan S. Connell

Source: MRS. BRIDGE

“Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

Knows Men Age Time Cases Loneliness Hair Promise Decades Lists Enthusiasm Thirty Feeling Lonely Single Man 30th Birthday Great Gatsby American Dream

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

“Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.”

Persons I Can Wisdom Reality Religion Lost Loses Justice Half Five Generations Human Nature Ethics Shadow Strategy Individuality Ideology Thirty Other Half

Author:Vicky Beeching

“Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.”

Five Percent Thirty

Author:Theophilus London

“Thirty-five states have Canada as their largest export market. Let's say we get into a trade war with the United States - hopefully not, but let's say. Many states in the union are going to have trouble and more costs getting their stuff up to Canada. If we make the border a little thicker in terms of tariffs, and hit back, that will start to impact the states, in particular large business interests that are in Canada. And that starts to put indirect pressure on the White House.”

“Thirty-five years ago, being a cook was the same as being a used-car salesman.”

Years Used Five Car Years Ago Cooks Thirty Five Years Salesman Used Car Car Salesman Used Car Salesman

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“Thirty-nine was the best year of my life earnings-wise. I paid off my mortgage and felt a massive sense of achievement.”

Years Felt Wise Achievement Paid Nine Thirty Massive Earning Mortgage Best Year Paid Off

Author:Nicki Chapman

“Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.”

Years Beautiful Life Is Enemy Needed Understood Clouds Nine Thirty Life Is Short Nine Years Life Wisdom

Author:Iimani David

“Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit”

Habit Percent Seven Saving Thirty Gambling Savings Dip

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new”

Trying Mean Six Photographer Thirty Exposure

Author:Freeman Patterson

“Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow bodybuilders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.”

Men World Years Body America Known Economy He Man Six Fellows California Thirty Governors Success In Life Oaks Builder Coming To America Body Builder

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.”

Made Inspiration Motivation Three Decision Regret Percent Thirty

Author:Kathryn Schulz

“Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.”

Years Art Stills Pain Three Opportunity Voice Hurt Creativity Creating Rage Thirty Three Years Three Year Olds Creating Art

Author:Kanye West

“Thirty-two coups d'etat are enough.”

Two Enough Thirty Coups

Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.”

Years Two Decision Majority Court Supreme Thirty Abortion Two Years Supreme Court Pro Life Wade Roe V Wade Court Decision

Author:Rick Santorum

“THIRTY–ZERO! TAKE THAT, YOU DIRTY, CHEATING —” “Jordan, if you can’t commentate in an unbiased way — !” “I’m telling it like it is, Professor!”

Ifs Way Dirty Thirty Cheating Zero Professors Jordan Unbiased Telling It Like It Is

Author:J. K. Rowling

“This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.”

Humans Process Understanding Sacred Seeking Permanent Interpretation Revealing Ongoing

Author:Curtis White

“This "knowing what to do"... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.”

Knows Matter Hands Purpose Situation Knowing Shots Rely Appropriate Best Shot Knowing What To Do

Author:Roger Scruton

Source: Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

“This "new" idea of God proposes that all the characteristics traditionally attributed to the purely external God are, in an important sense, attributes of this inner force of consciousness. When this inner energy of higher consciousness is experienced, it then becomes clear that such an energy permeates the entire universe. In this way, it is through self-knowledge that the existence of an external God is verified and understood.”

Important Universe Energy Existence Consciousness Propose

Author:Jacob Needleman

“This 'double ethical bind' we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.”

Mean Honest Balance Being Honest Ethical Formulas

Author:Stephen Schneider

“This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.”

Real Natural Situation Too Much Seeing Flying Phenomenon Imaginary Ufo Visionaries Something Real Natural Phenomena Flying Saucers

Author:Nathan Farragut Twining

“This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley.”

Littles Problem Running Girl Responsibility Serious Investment Silly Valleys Hug Irrational Serious Business Digital Media

Author:Sarah Lacy

“This 'one big plan' thinking leads to a lot of the problems we're facing.”

Thinking Problem Bigs Decision Plans Decision Making

Author:Clara Mamet

“This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.”

Ifs Thinking Use Disease Idiot Confused Mentality Users Gnome Functionality

Author:Linus Torvalds

“This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.”

Way Funny America Next Rich Land Diversity Humorous Garbage Manhattan Skyscraper

Author:Dave Barry

“This (Coley's toxins) is really an effective treatment and it an OUTRAGEOUS crime of the century that we at MSK were able to cure cancer a 100 years ago that they can't cure today.”

Years Today Able Century Crime Years Ago Cancer Cures Treatment Outrageous Toxins

Author:Ralph W. Moss

“This (environmental treaty) process has nothing to do with the weather. It has nothing to do with man's impact on the weather. It has everything to do with establishing the socialist international at the heart of the UN and making every nation bow the knee to this new dictatorship, and the climate is merely a fig leaf to cover what they are trying to do.”

Men Trying Heart Nations Process Impact Climate Environmental International Weather Knees Bows Dictatorship Socialist Leafs Treaties Figs

Author:Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

“This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to eat snails.”

People Should Mind Funny Bears Kissing Humorous Sexy France Things To Do Snail

Author:Dave Barry

“This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.”

Doe Form Culture Language Development Reflection Concepts Deny Symbols Contradiction Falsehood Vocabulary Abstraction Reducing Transcendent Truth And Falsehood

Author:Herbert Marcuse

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations”

Administration Corporations Sympathetic Transnational Corporations

Author:Ralph Nader

“This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed.”

Approach Multicultural

Author:Angela Merkel

“This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.”

France Paris Frenchmen

Author:Bobby Heenan

“This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey.”

Giving Different Names Flower Bears Taste Unique Presidential Honey Bees Dictatorship Asia Turkeys Resemblance

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.”

People Men World Today Chance Education Technology Learning Tomorrow Moon Achievement Projects All Time Remembered Greek Humankind Scanning Today Not Tomorrow

Author:Brewster Kahle

“This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.”

Country Age History Land Middle Europe Vietnam Middle Ages Rebellious Columbus

Author:Graham Greene

“This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.”

Want Feels Writing Wake Up Fulfilling Absorbing Love Your Life

Author:Martin Amis

“This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.”

People Looks Energy Vision Confidence Recovery Crucial Mayors Rebuilding

Author:Marc Morial

“This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over intelligence, the literal over the immaterial or complex, materialism over spirituality. This is the result of many years of disrespecting the intellectual project - of a collective acceptance of the idea that thinking and reasoning and reading deeply in difficult text and being respectful of history are somehow "wimpy" or secondary.”

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