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“Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.”

Needs Years Firsts Has Beens Today Winning Process President Years Ago Vote Twenties Iraq Saddam Hussein Twenty One Popular Vote Electoral Process

Author:Jay Leno

“How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.”

Years Long Art Process Twenties Rational Take Me Hesitation Methodical

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“Not a week goes by without my learning something new about golf. That means, of course, that I was ignorant of eight things about golf two months ago. Extend that process back nearly twenty years and the result is an impressive accumulation of ignorance.”

Years Mean Two Courses Process Results Week Ignorance Months Twenties Golf Eight Ignorant Something New Impressive Accumulation Two Months Learning Something New

Book:The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner

Source: The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner

“Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.”

Firsts Facts Process Change Century Masters Skills Twenties Constant Critical Rapids Facts Of Life Leadership Skills Process Of Change Rapid Change

Book:Thinking In The Future Tense

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.”

Age Process Differences Duty Twenties Limitation Engaged Who We Are Forty Discovering Impunity

Author:W. H. Auden

“Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the economy. You can feel more prosperous in a one-room cottage than most wealthy people feel in a twenty-room mansion. Misers will hoard a lot of money and spendthrifts will spend whatever they have - you don't have to do either to feel prosperous. You may have to give up your secure, high-paying corporate job, however - and grow spiritually in the process.”

“One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.”

People I Can Song Process Crazy Twenties Repetition

Author:Craig Finn

“In '94, I started writing a novel about an enormous terrorist act that destroyed the United States. The novel takes place twenty years after this destruction, with all the stuff that we're dealing with now - a dirty war, the disappeared, the concept of terrorism. Anyway, 9/11 happened some years into the process, and I was like, OK, I don't have a novel.”

Writing Years War States Stuff Process United United States Novel Happened Concepts Destruction Twenties Terrorism Terrorist Enormous Destroyed Dirty

Author:Junot Diaz

“I was honored to serve as an elected official for twenty-four years of my life. But right now, I believe our democratic processes have been hacked. They are not serving the best interests of the American public.”

Years Believe Has Beens I Believe Process Interest Four Right Now Twenties Democratic Officials Serving Four Years Honored Elected Officials Hacked Democratic Process

Author:Al Gore

“What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.”

“Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.”

Believe Hard Whole Belief I Believe Process Hours Four Creation Six Twenties Inspired Scripture Hard Times Infallible

Author:Tony Campolo

“Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.”

Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

“Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods... An investigative process in depth is necessary here if, after twenty years of confusion, we want some answers.”

Ifs Want Years Process Answers Twenties Method Add Depth Wave Confusion Analysis Reports Accumulation Sirius

Author:J. Allen Hynek