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“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Years Has Beens Young Girl Felt Wealth Freedom Marriage Poverty Five Giving Up Married Twenties Five Years Fifty Dolls Twenty One Housekeepers

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.”

Life Years Littles Success Born Family Five Building Years Ago Contact Five Years Flats Seventies Family Life Illinois

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark.”

Years Five Mark Twenties Leaving Divorce Tiny Rings Fats Five Years Engagement Diamond Pulling Rip Thumbs Twenty Five Wedding Ring

Book:45 Mercy Street

Source: 45 Mercy Street

“The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.”

Needs Years Reason Body Light Lasts Literature Term Five Four Hundred Slavery Trade Slave Contact Justify Slave Trade

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.”

Years Has Beens Book Ends Matter Funny Together Lasts Five Balance Pages Surprise Following Folly Quantity Chapters Looking Back Texture

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume

“One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?”

Thinking Years Stills Care Grows Party Five Alive Aging Disappear Cards Fewer Sixty

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.”

Men Years Change Five Men And Women Prejudice Twenties Clouds Blow Storm Every Man Indifference Thirty Thunder Going To Work Idleness Terrific Thirty Years Advancing Twenty Five

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.”

“Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.”

Years Children Country Sometimes Home Hours Five Four Land Fit Adults Twenties Speed Native Four Years Yearning Traveler Jet Twenty Five Native Land

Book:Reviving Ophelia

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.”

“Comrade life, let us march faster, March faster through what's left of the five-year plan.”

Years Left Five Plans Faster Five Years March Comrade Five Year Plans

Book:Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

Source: Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy

“I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.”

Years Used Church Five Singing Five Years Exposed Solo Five Year Olds

Book:I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story

Source: I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story

“When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now?”

People Want Years Remember Asks Five Months Travel Six Eating Asking Hungry Evening Ask Me Five Years Dishes Recipes Six Months

Author:Paula Wolfert

“A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole body...a troublesome vomiting came on, of a fluid which resembl’d water, tinctur’d with soot.... Death took place.... In the stomach...was an ulcerated cancerous tumour.... Betwixt the stomach and the spleen were two glandular bodies, of the bigness of a bean, and in their colour, and substance, not much unlike that tumour which I have describ’d in the stomach.”

Men Years Two Whole Body Age Death Water Five Four Months Six Substance Colour Fifty Stomach Four Years Six Months Fluid Beans Troublesome Vomiting Spleen

Author:Giovanni Battista Morgagni

“My dad abandoned me when I was about two years old. So, he wasn't around to protect me the way I needed to be protected. I started getting sexually abused from the time I was about five years old to the time I was ten. It really messed with my sense of self worth and my sense of all that was good with the world, almost.”

World Way Years Two Self Five Needed Dad Protect Ten My Dad Self Worth Five Years Two Years Abandoned Protected Sense Of Self Sexually Five Year Olds Two Year Olds

Author:Pattie Mallette

“I became successful and within five years conquered the world and had the most amazing run. I had so much momentum and adrenaline going, but then it ends and you have to find what level you're going to be on, how enthusiastic you're going to be.”

World Years Ends Running Levels Successful Five Five Years Enthusiastic Momentum Adrenaline Most Amazing

Author:Elton John

“My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.”

Years Different Mother Father Parent Religious Christianity Five Teacher Thirty Five Years Traveled Nigeria Evangelists

Author:Chinua Achebe

“I never, in any city I've ever been in, never remember the names of streets. The longest place I ever lived in was for five years and I didn't know the name of the next street over.”

Knows Years Remember Next Names Cities Five Streets Five Years

Author:Christian Bale

“I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?”

Years War Laughing Five Childhood Five Years Bombs

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at each of those 11 states over the last 50 years, and I took their current economic metrics and their metrics for the five years before they put in the progressive income tax... Every single state that introduced a progressive income tax has declined as an overall share of the U.S. economy.”

Years States Lasts United United States Economy Five Share Economic Taxes Currents Income Five Years Progressive Income Tax Metrics

Author:Arthur Laffer

“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.”

“History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did!”

Years Believe Hard Moving Five Gay Corporations Five Years Hard To Believe Personhood

Author:Stephen Colbert

“[Facebook] is shaping a broader web. If you look back for the past five or seven years, the story about social networking has really been about getting people connected... But if you look forward for the next five years, I think that the story people are going to remember five years from now isn't how this one site was built; it is how every single service that you use is now going to be better with your friends.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Looks Stories Use Past Remember Next Social Five Built Seven Connected Five Years Site Seven Years Networking Social Networking Social Network Story People

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.”

Years Found Five Discovery Years Ago Five Years Journal

Book:A Thomas Merton Reader

Source: A Thomas Merton Reader

“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.”

Ifs Way Years Looks Has Beens Said Done Home Bigs Three Easy Simple Numbers Taken Five Advice New York Hundred Red Former Hopefully Managers Five Years Halls No Brainer General Manager

Author:Roger Clemens

“If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.”

Ifs World Years Children Two Time Reading Born Five Twenties Seven Population Thirty Five Years

Author:Robert Bork

“For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?”

“Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. At Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.”

Ifs Years Made Two Use Used Five Wall Authority Mass Unions Permanent Settling Dry Five Years Two Years Bricks Covering Approved Shrinking Magistrates

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.”

World Years Ends Lasts Guy Five Movement Couple Harder Series Eight Nine Rely Throwing Last Year Location Ninety Eighty World Series Mph

Author:Andy Pettitte

“I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.”

Thinking Giving Years Firsts Class Five Twenties Five Years Lectures Twenty Five

Author:John Edensor Littlewood

“Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.”

Years Millions Five Impossible Building Waste Years Ago Dollars Five Years Site Million Dollars

Author:David Walker

“I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.”

Years Made Moving Five Policy Research Made It Five Years

Author:Abraham Robinson

“It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.”

Years Children Littles Stills Ideas Hours Five Sitting Cruelty Torture Five Years Gazing One Hour Five Year Olds Vacancy Sitting Still

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.”

Years Wells Character Light Action Time Views Five Revolution Habit Regard Appearance Manners Motive Five Years Personal Appearance Gradual Change

Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.”

Years Together Form Young Given Women Five Conditions Twenties Fellows Thirty Veteran Thirty Years Gallantry

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.”

Knows Should Writing Years Has Beens Play Moral Five Stage Fine Taste Suits Useless Thirty Five Years

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.”

Ifs Should Years Has Beens Soul Chance Poor Kindness Five Credit Selfish Suits Generosity Selfishness Impulse Selfless Forgiven Monstrous

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to my leading lady and singing a Bollywood ditty which went something like this, Kabhie alvida na kehna – my mouth froze itself to death. I say death because as I inched closer to kiss her, mouthing the words kabhi alvida na… my mouth and jaw just locked.”

Years Memories Five Cold Kissing Singing Mouths Years Ago Damn Five Years Locked December Yale Bollywood Leading Ladies

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.”

Years Long Order Given Half Five Four Ten Percent Investing Favors Nine Gambling Odds Casinos

Author:Burton Malkiel

“The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.”

Knows Men Feels Years Country Five Ten Every Man Experts Five Years Novices

Author:Pierre Berton

“Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.”

Years Values Five Investing Five Years Stockbrokers

Author:Walter Schloss

“That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.”

Thinking Years Parent Five Wonderful Mets Tongue Five Years Tied Youngsters Atlanta Five Year Olds Tongue Tied Wonderful Parents

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.”

Men Years Five He Man Months Solitude Eating Years Ago Stranger Hens

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.”

“there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.”

Years Moments Three Hours Five Four Week Tomorrow Hundred Twenties Seven Yesterday Sixty Seven Days

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.”

Ifs Needs Should Years Children Long Important Matter Forever Knowing Five Twenties Oneself Five Years Twenty Five Delayed Knowing Everything

Author:Laura Riding

“So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.”

“If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.”

Ifs Way Needs Years Stills Different Problem Talking Five Internet Conversation Hearing Solve Access Objectives Different Ways Five Years Free Speech Clip Alligators

Author:Louis J. Freeh

“In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.”

Years Lasts Next Five Week Internet Years Ago Unions France Japan Australia Afghanistan Soviet Free Speech Last Year Soviet Union Turkeys Next Week Norway Malaysia Bolivia

Book:The Lower River

Source: The Lower River

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