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“We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too. Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?”

Years War Three Periods Percent Direct Twenties Towns South Population Three Years Burned Exposure Korea North Korea Starvation Casualties South Korea

Author:Curtis LeMay

“In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from Vnukovo airport. Tanks from the Taman Division stood beneath the dripping trees around Moscow University with their field kitchens and command trucks. This was not a new sight to me: the Soviet tanks had rested like that beneath the trees of the parks in Prague, late in another August twenty-three years before. Now they had invaded and crushed one more country -- their own.”

“At twenty-seven years old, I was diagnosed HIV. Three years later I decide to dedicate the remainder of my life to art. Leaving work and refusing the assistance of Unemployment Insurance or Welfare, I challenged myself to live completely through my art.”

Years Art Three Health Twenties Seven Leaving Welfare Three Years Unemployment Assistance Seven Years Hiv

Author:Joe Average

“I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.”

People Years Said Facts Age Beautiful Three Becoming Twenties Old Age Three Years Three Year Olds

Book:Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide

Source: Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide

“I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.”

Years Three Twenties Drunk Three Years

Author:W. C. Fields

“Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.”

Years Long Three Grows Twenties Plenty Legends Three Years Beard

Book:The Dark Tower Boxed Set

Source: The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years...or as long as it takes to win.”

People Years Long Two Three Winning Months Twenties Excited Winner Thirty Three Years Thirty Years Three Months

Author:Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

“My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.”

Feels Years Three Changed Music Is Twenties Forty Three Years Three Year Olds

Author:Chris Robinson

“You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.”

Way Years Long Book Care Three Ten Twenties Lasting Three Years Notoriety

Author:Dan Chaon

“The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.”

Ifs Years Book Three Voice Lord Listening Holy Jokes Angel Twenties Desert Prophet Three Years Holy Books

Book:V.

Source: V.

“I got it made the rest of my life, financially and in every other way. There's nobody in the world like me. I'm getting out just in time. If I was twenty seven, I could still kick ass. I don't have to beat Holmes. Why? I raised him, he worked three years as a sparring partner for me.”

Ifs World Way Years Made Stills Three Beats Twenties Raised Seven Partners Like Me Ass Kicks Three Years Holmes Kick Ass Sparring Sparring Partner

Author:Muhammad Ali

“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.”

Men Years Three Bed Eating Twenties Birthday Retirement Three Years Sixty 60th Birthday Funny Old Age Birthday Fortune Cookie 40th Birthday Funny 40 Year Old Birthday 20th Birthday Awesome Birthday 21st Birthday

Author:Arnold Bennett