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“Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.”

“Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?”

Ifs Years Long Hard Lasts Chance Fit Twenties Rose Smell Bread Chocolate Last Year Avoiding Delicious Unbelievable Slow Down Too Short Carbohydrates Life Too Short Live Every Day

Author:Nora Ephron

“People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.”

People Reason Seems Lasts Hate Worry Five Four Groups Percent Twenties Like Me Divided Hate Me Twenty Five Wrong Reasons

Author:Robert Frost

“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)

“There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises.”

“The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.”

Source: The Hunger Games

“There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast.”

Believe Lasts Hours Four Impossible Twenties Breakfast Dozen Exhaustion Hysteria Impossible Things

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!”

Book Ends Lasts Grace Missing Married Pages Twenties Copies Augustus Hazel Grace Augustus Waters

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you. Don’t hold it up and say it’s longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.”

Giving Looks Lasts Mother Perfect Regret Months Spring Twenties Warm Saved Coats Small Things Rest Of Your Life Saying Thank You You Will Regret

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.”

Ifs Firsts Two Lasts Moving Attention Quality Special Century Expectations Shots Twenties Bored Length Seconds Intensity Moron Friction

Author:Geoff Dyer

“It was a Friday night, she was at a club, and a good-looking man was currently giving her the I-want-to-take-you-home-and-I-hope-I-last-longer-than-five-minutes look… and she was thinking about pie, a young adult book, and feeding her cat. She was so turning into the cat lady at twenty-seven. Sweet.”

“I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.”

Lasts Music Minutes Periods Twenties Unhappy Enjoyed

Author:Keith Moon

“When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.”

Years Age Lasts Science Father Twenties Seven Amazed Seven Years Twenty One Fourteen Unintelligent Astounded

Author:Mark Twain

“What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.”

Knows Sometimes Seems Lasts Time Hours Forever Four Twenties Mysterious Mysterious Things

Author:Melanie Benjamin

“So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.”

Men Giving Littles Lasts Science Poor Millions Sky Mankind Rocks Moon Office Twenties Dollars Billions Miles Flight Thirty Aviation Chemicals Quarters Metals Agony Magnificent Wire

Author:Russell Baker

“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.”

“Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.”

Thinking Way Needs Years Lasts Spiritual Individual Forever Psychology Habit Findings Twenties Significant Helplessness

Book:Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Source: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

“The amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon.”

Years Lasts Next Energy Environment Ten Twenties Climate Change Oil Phenomenon Temporary Nevertheless Exhibitions Vanishing

Author:Peter Lesley

“Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn't have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God's intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?”

Source: Humility: True Greatness

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