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“We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?”

Years War Three Periods Percent Direct Twenties Towns South Population Three Years Burned Exposure Korea North Korea Starvation Casualties South Korea

Author:Curtis LeMay

“These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.”

Firsts War Earth Numbers Century Periods Twenties Population Painful Prosperity Oil Driven Burning Reasonable Reserves Plague Tribulation Hedonistic

Book:Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

“It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.”

People Real Home Existence Loneliness Periods Lonely Twenties Comedian Bizarre Cliche Poignant

Author:Paul Merton

“Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.”

Should Years Looks Two Age Hate Education Five Youth Periods Twenties Seven Vices Following Stranger Pursuit Five Years Divided Hereafter Passed Away Puberty

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.”

People Way Sound Teacher Happened Identity Periods Twenties Miles Great Times Great Teacher Highlights Back In The Day

Author:Herbie Hancock

“Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?”

Years Science Language Periods Thousand Six Hundred Twenties Mathematics Income Titles Copies Steady Display Fifteen Outlines Linear Annuals Algebra Fifteen Years

Author:Gian-Carlo Rota

“When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.”

Shows Film Culture Numbers Growing Up Growing Television Huge Periods Twenties Mythology Bunch Television Shows Roaring Underworld Roaring Twenties

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.”

Way Church Minutes Particular Periods Worship Twenties Lifestyle Connecting With God Christian Service Church Service

Book:After God's Own Heart: The Key to Knowing and Living God's Passionate Love for You

Source: After God's Own Heart: The Key to Knowing and Living God's Passionate Love for You

“A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.”

Hands Pain Past Five Broken Periods Sorrow Twenties Eight Thirty Cheerful Twenty Five Broken Down Auditors Thirty Eight Mental Pain

Book:Self Analysis

Source: Self Analysis

“The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.”

Use Age Three Speak Boys Five Taught Periods Twenties Bows Three Things Speak The Truth Persian

Author:Herodotus

“MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.”

World School Environment Periods Essentials Function Mark Twenties Realization Ritual Collapse Inability Breakdown Usage Pharmaceutical

Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.”

“Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations and so forth. I developed the EIS over the time period that I was just talking about [1991].”

Different Hands Numbers Talking Periods Twenties Delay Parameters Time Periods

Author:Pauline Oliveros