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“If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Giving Years Kind May Whole Eye Hate Voice Pieces Tears Sweet Findings Twenties London Bitter Poison Hate You Fellowship Unkind Sweet Voice Chloroform

Book:You Never Can Tell

Source: You Never Can Tell

“Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.”

Thinking May Hours Four Huge Conflict Twenties Spots Usa Rescue Globes United States Of America Disputes Squad

Book:SOUL ON ICE

Source: SOUL ON ICE

“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

“When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.”

May Humanity Loses Honesty Genius Losing Weight Twenties Fats Diets Pounds Our Love Weight Loss Dieting Fat People Funny Diet Love And Honesty

Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

“If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance.”

Ifs Giving Should May Doe Enough Facts Seems Science Lines Levels Results Failing Lows Draws Standards Hundred Twenties Experiments Fifty Significance Statistics Cents Odds Scientific Facts

Author:Ronald Fisher

“The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?”

Men Humans Wells May Spiritual Asks Greater Greatness Standards Twenties Regard Islam Empires Founders

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new creative directions by a spiritual awareness and moral commitment that transcend nationalism, racism, sexism, religious sectarianism, anthropocentrism, and the dualism between human culture and nature. This is the great issue for the 1990s and the twenty-first century.”

“It is most heartening to learn that young men and women, in their late teens and twenties, are increasingly attracted to meditative prayer in the Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. May all the faithful find in the Eucharist their source of strength and courage to imitate our Lady, totally open to his will in their daily lives. It is my hope that this devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist will spread to more and more parishes and dioceses across our nation.”

“When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.”

May Long Age Young Spirit Dies Youth Optimism Twenties Down And Aging Wave Snow Ice Covered Pessimism Cynicism Eighty There Is Hope Die Young

Author:Samuel Ullman

“Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.”

Years May Age Fool Twenties Careful Flight Stairs Grooming Personal Grooming Cute Funny

Author:Marlene Dietrich

“Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.”

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five