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“Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are things that the public should have known about. In a democracy they should have known what leaders thinking and planning about major enterprises like the Vietnam war. It was kept secret from them.”

“Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.”

Years Lasts Five Pride Twenties Five Years Underestimate Twenty Five

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Just recently, the administration of Barack Obama, which has broken all sorts of records in regards to deportation, picked up a Guatemalan man living here [in U.S]. I think he had been living here for twenty-five years, had a family, a business, and so on. He had fled from the Mayan region and they picked him up and deported him. To me, that's really sick.”

Thinking Men Years Records Five Broken Sick Twenties Regard Administration Barack Five Years Regions Twenty Five Deportation

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The advantage my looks gave me was that I wasn't limited to just playing Indian roles when I was abroad, and I've been abroad for almost twenty-five years.”

Years Looks Roles Five Advantage Twenties Indian Five Years Twenty Five

Author:Kabir Bedi

“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”

“My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.”

Giving Should Years School Past Five Twenties Misery Five Years Indication Over The Past Twenty Five School Life School Days

Author:Paul Merton

“My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”

Years Government Goal Half Five Cutting Twenties Size Five Years Twenty Five Bathtubs

Author:Grover Norquist

“Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.”

Years States House Levels Party Numbers Taken Five Position Higher Republican Percent Years Ago Twenties Protection Locals Candidates Five Years Senate Taxpayers Pledge Twenty Five

Author:Grover Norquist

“One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.”

Years I Can Dream Happens Jobs Fall Courses Speak My Own Five Comedy Twenties Profession Evolve Rising Five Years Twenty Five Changing Course

Author:Conan O'Brien

“People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.”

People Years Believe Stills Hard Five Crazy Madness Twenties Five Years Twenty Five Hard To Believe Python

Author:Michael Palin

“I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.”

Years Done Felt Bits Careers Five Twenties Enjoyed Five Years Twenty Five Disillusioned Disillusion

Author:John Polkinghorne

“Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.”

Thinking World Years Persons Helping Past Sound Rooms Worry Five Information Happenings Madness Twenties Useless Five Years Our World Twenty Five Cacophony Useless Information

Author:Martin Scorsese

“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

“What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.”

Years Beautiful Girl Five Died Twenties Brilliant Five Years Twenty Five Five Year Olds

Author:Erich Segal

“This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!”

“Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.”

People Knows Men World Years Long Lasts Found Five Impossible Twenties Monsters Flying Five Years Ashamed Dragons Fossils Up And Down Twenty Five

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)

“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?”

Years Girl Five Died Twenties Five Years Twenty Five Five Year Olds

Author:Erich Segal

“I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.”

“Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.”

Years Long School Choices Names Five Four Childhood Needed Late Twenties University Affair Forgotten Thirty Five Years Teens Leavers

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Teenagers don't know what love is. They have mixed-up ideas. They go for a drive and the boy runs out of gas and they smooch a little and the girl says she loves him. That isn't love. Love is when you are married twenty-five years, smooching in your living room and he runs out of gas and she says she still loves him. That's love.”

Knows Years Littles Stills Ideas Running Girl Love Is Rooms Boys Five Married Twenties Teenager Five Years Gas Living Room Twenty Five Best Love

Author:Norm Crosby

“A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.”

Men Years May Stills Care Fun Forget Five Twenties Take Care Five Years Ducks Stairs Twenty Five Cellars Furnaces

Book:Chips Off the Old Benchley

Source: Chips Off the Old Benchley

“The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.”

Years Mind Believe Stills Ideas Belief Energy Powerful Taken Five Twenties Five Years Twenty Five Atomic Energy

Author:Nikola Tesla

“For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.”

“If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.”

Ifs Years Two War Certain Fighting Force Five Blood Military Victory Years Ago Flow Destruction Twenties France Germany Five Years Twenty Five Barbarism

Author:Edouard Daladier

“...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.”

Years Energy Goal Environment Five Ought Periods Program Twenties Climate Change Accomplish Five Years Internals Engines Strategic Twenty Five Eliminating Combustion

Author:Al Gore

“I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.”

Years Made Stories Remember Dies Reading Five Advice Twenties Critics Bottom Impression Drunk Rejection Five Years Editors Reviews Good Advice Twenty Five Reviewers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“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.”

People Years Feelings Today Fiction Knowing Five Effects Years Ago Twenties Science Fiction Climate Climate Change Excuse Five Years Not Knowing Twenty Five No Excuses

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The idea that I would ever end up on David Letterman or Jay Leno is horrifying. I am such a freak in comparison to most other twenty-five-year-old guys. I have no idea what other people are thinking. I’m not really in touch.”

People Thinking Years Ideas Ends Guy Five Twenties No Idea Five Years Comparison Freak Twenty Five Five Year Olds Old Guys Letterman

Author:Jared Leto

“Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.”

Thinking Way Years Stills Facts Today Language Powerful Creative Five Design Majors Twenties Remains Factors Five Years Unusual Flexible Twenty Five Hackers Lisp

Author:Eric S. Raymond

“My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.”

Years Five Computer Twenties Five Years Twenty Five

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Now, just think, to accuse me of such a crime. Think of it! I, who have for twenty-five years single- handed struggled against the invasion of the Russian Government into American money markets, and to this day stave them off. Think of it! Who, as I, have been foremost in the past for agitation and insisted to the President of the United States; as some of you must know, that our treaty with Russia must be abrogated.”

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