“Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.” KnowsMenYearsMayTwoHardStoriesFoundHe ManProudPlantDecadesManagersTireAlabamaNineteen Author:Lilly Ledbetter
“We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.” KnowsWantNeedsWellsCountryDoneProblemLastsCoursesDecadesManageOur CountryGreek Author:George Papandreou
“I checked to see if there’d been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, “What can we know about her education?” It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.” IfsKnowsBookLastsTurnsDealsWrittenAskingDecadesGood Book Author:Stacy Schiff
“I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?” ThinkingKnowsWayKindHas BeensDifferentCountryPastHappenedResponseDecadesDifferent WaysHovering Author:Amy Waldman
“In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.” KnowsFirstsHomeChristianCommunityAnd LoveRaisedDecadesGod LoveChristian Home Author:Chely Wright
“I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.” KnowsPositionDecadesExceptional Author:Cameron Mackintosh