“The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not caring about who it antagonizes, not caring about the effects on neighboring regions.” WantFirstsWarStatesShowsUnitedUnited StatesEffectsCenturyTwentiesCaringRegionsAfghanistanNot Caring Author:Tariq Ali
“I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.” ThinkingWellsLongSelfYoungGirlWishSidesKnownDoubtEffectsLateTwentiesInsecurityLastingSelf-doubtSide EffectsLong LastingTweensLate Twenties Author:Deborah Reber
“I never experienced anything in my natural state that was as shocking as salvia divinorum`s effects. The condensed extract is murder. I'd smoked some plain leaf and experienced a very alien, very physical sensation, like wheels grinding against each other all over my body. Odd, not pleasant, but not overwhelming. Someone sent me some extract, and I took a big lungful, started counting, and before I reached twenty I was suddenly and without preamble in a completely altered state.” StatesBodyBigsNaturalEffectsMurderTwentiesAliensOddPleasantWheelsSensationsOverwhelmingLeafsShockingCountingAlteredAltered StatesPreamble Author:Jim Woodring
“I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.” PeopleYearsKindYoungInterestingCommonForeverGrowingGroupsEffectsBecomingTenTwentiesDivorceLastingDivorcedBecoming More Author:Diablo Cody
“The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.” WholeHoursHalfWatchesFourMinutesEffectsTwentiesSpreadAidsWheelsLabourExertionInsensibleWinding Up Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures
“When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I'm not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy. Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.” WellsMadeSaidLastsCoursesImagineMinutesEffectsSixTwentiesStatementsSecretaryFrozenDisturbingAcademyNobelSwedishVery FamousFrozen In Time Author:Ahmed H. Zewail
“Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?” HeartSoulBeautifulCausesKnownEffectsProduceKissingTwentiesKicksRulersAlasCandide Author:Voltaire
“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.” MenGivingMadeLawCoursesBornFourEffectsGunTwentiesCarrieCategoriesAlteredBankruptcyCreditorsBayonets Book:Candide: or, Optimism Source: Candide: or, Optimism
“Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.” HumanityEvilHoursBrainFourModernEffectsHabitActivityMiracleTwentiesCoffeeTensionComplexityTwelveModern LifeTempo Author:Margaret Meagher
“[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human beings can do to themselves in the way of being led astray by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions. These are examples of pathological science. These are things that attracted a great deal of attention. Usually hundreds of papers have been published upon them. Sometimes they have lasted for fifteen or twenty years and then they gradually die away.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsHumansHas BeensSometimesDiesUnderstandingCan DoHuman BeingsResultsDealsAttentionCasesEffectsExampleInvolvedPaperResearchTwentiesInteractionFifteenPapersSubjectiveDishonestyThresholdWishful ThinkingLack Of Understanding Author:Irving Langmuir
“Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.” PeopleYearsFeelingsTodayFictionKnowingFiveEffectsYears AgoTwentiesScience FictionClimateClimate ChangeExcuseFive YearsNot KnowingTwenty FiveNo Excuses Author:Desmond Tutu