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“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

Years Firsts Humans Stills Two Facts Dies Born Air Creatures Eternal England Twenties Britain Ireland Seventies Foreigners Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.”

“We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.”

Years Littles Persons Wanted Bits Born Mines College Mets Majors Twenties Steady Radar Fickle Ruts

Book:Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir

Source: Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir

“My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.”

Years Born Existence Democracy Grew Husband Grew Up Europe Twenties Moved Various Israel Experiments My Husband Dictatorship Socialist Brazil Utopian Filthy

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.”

Years Real Happens Eye America Born Known Violence Risk Strange Died Twenties Things Happen Latin Coward Latin America

Author:Roberto Bolano

“People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.”

“It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.”

“Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.”

Years Born Millions Atheism Twenties Catholic Positive Atheism Luther

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“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

“Life, the moment. Where the magic is. That's what really keeps me motivated, alive, hungry. I'm still as excited and motivated now as I was twenty-five years ago, and that's because I really live for those moments. And that's where the art comes from, that's where the music is born, that's where it all appears. I love it.”

Years Art Stills Moments Born Five Alive Magic Music Is Years Ago Twenties Excited Hungry Five Years Motivated Twenty Five

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.”

“If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

Ifs Bigs Light Parent Born Cities Written Generations Twenties Tao Clicks Gary Big Cities Bright Lights

Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“I'm 47, I have gray hair, and yet people still come up to me on the street who are in their twenties, who weren't even born when 'Singles' was made... well, they were pretty tiny, anyway... and they say, 'Oh, I love that movie.' And I always say, 'How OLD are you?'”

People Wells Made Stills Born Streets Hair Twenties Come Up Tiny Gray Singles Gray Hair

Author:Campbell Scott

“Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder. In my twenties, living in New York City, I worked in a soup kitchen every Sunday for many years, just trying to do my part. Then I read Animal Liberation and learned about factory farming and the killing of animals for oven cleaner and realized nobody needed my help as badly as the animals did.”

“After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Robert Olen Butler, Oscar Hijuelos and others, have been most encouraging.”

Years Has Beens Stories Born Pieces Twenties Thirty Collections Oscars Selected Thirteen Butlers Most Encouraging

Author:Andrew Lam

“I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.”

Real Moments Jobs Lasts Found Lost Born Twenties Track Quitting Magazines Tied Packages Twenty One Prestige I Quit Tied Up Real Jobs Small Packages

Author:Anne Lamott

“In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.”

Ifs Country Motivation Speak Parent Born Differences Twenties Like Me Speak English

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I grow warm, I begin to feel happy. There is nothing extraordinary in this, it is a small happiness of Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out time - the time of purple suspenders, and broken chair seats; it is made of white, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain. No sooner than born, it is already old, it seems as though I have known it for twenty years.”

Feels Years Made Seems Grows Born White Known Broken Twenties Extraordinary Bottom Edges Spread Warm Oil Instant Seats Chairs Purple Stains Puddles Nausea Suspenders

Book:Nausea

Source: Nausea

“Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.”

Years Humans Two Earth Lasts Three Born Human Beings Morning Five Minutes Months Twenties Five Years Twelve Midnight Suburbs January Twenty Five Pubs Two Months Buenos Aires

Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!”

Source: Invisible Man

“Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)”

Years Said Guy Fighting Born Hours Pleasure Particular Broken Ten Office Twenties Prison Hungry Sat Daring Grandfather Desks Vow My Grandfather Tramps Fighting For Love Office Desk

Author:Isaac Babel

“Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.”

“This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.”

Men Should Moving Born Broken Mass Rain Twenties Thirty Muscles Chests Agony Baptism Born Again Older Man

Author:Frank Miller

“Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, "The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005”

People Want Two States Earth Born Twenties Reports Astronaut November Ohio Twenty Two

Author:Stephen Colbert

“It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.”

People Book Hard Born Twenties Miles Traveled Accused Looking Down

Book:The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?”

Ifs Whole Might Would Be Life Is Dies Bits Born Saws Streets Strange Balance Promise Standing Twenties Fifty Afternoon Advise Convenient Twenty One Standing There Helen Main Street Promise Me

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Horseman. I know you were born back when women were thought of as little more than brood mares and slaves, but it's the twenty-first century, and we can do anything a man does.”

Knows Men Firsts Littles Doe Can Do Born Century Twenties Slave Back When Horsemen Mares

Author:Larissa Ione

“Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.”

Men Giving Made Law Courses Born Four Effects Gun Twenties Carrie Categories Altered Bankruptcy Creditors Bayonets

Book:Candide: or, Optimism

Source: Candide: or, Optimism

“Many things shaped my identity as a young boy: a strong selfworth (something that was instilled in all three Barrowman siblings by our parents), my immersion in theatre and music, and my DNA. I was born gay. It's not a choice I – or anyone else who is gay – made. If it were, why on earth would anyone choose to be part of a minority, part of a group that in so many cultures and countries, even in the twenty-first century, is regularly blasphemed, hounded and worse?”

Ifs Firsts Made Country Earth Young Choices Culture Three Strong Parent Born Boys Groups Century Identity Gay Twenties Theatre Minorities Dna Sibling Immersion Born Gay

Book:Anything Goes: The Autobiography

Source: Anything Goes: The Autobiography

“Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.”

Born Lord Five Let Me Twenties Spread Twenty Five Born Again Reborn Lord Buddha

Book:Return to Righteousness: A Collection of Speeches, Essays, and Letters of the Anagarika Dharmapala

Source: Return to Righteousness: A Collection of Speeches, Essays, and Letters of the Anagarika Dharmapala

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