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“I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.”

People Years Young Differences Successful Five Generations Worst Twenties Five Years Being Successful Worst Things Twenty Five Qualitative Older Generation

Author:Cornel West

“The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]”

Law Worst Twenties Suits

Author:George Herbert

“My twenties were carefree in the worst ways. There's a nice balance now of work ethic and healthy lifestyle and carefree attitude, which is pretty nice. You get to a point where you don't care so much what people think of you and you care more about yourself.”

People Thinking Way Care Attitude Nice Worst Balance Healthy Ethics Twenties Don't Care Lifestyle About Yourself Work Ethic Healthy Lifestyle Think Of You Carefree

Author:Norman Reedus

“John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester abroad program ever.”

Years Fighting Study Worst Program Twenties Experts Afghanistan Pakistan Captured Taliban Walkers Semester

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.”

“I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.”

Writing Firsts Book Worst Changed Sick Twenties Illness Decades Accepted Exotic Changed My Life

Author:Judy Blume

“I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties. You're not burnt out, you're going to stick around and most of the best cyclists are in their 30s.”

Thinking Worst Twenties Sticks Worst Things Cyclists Burnt Out

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed.”

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Book:Good Men: An eShort Story

Source: Good Men: An eShort Story

“He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.”

Feels Kind Enough Young Loss Five Worst Missing Youth Happenings Twenties Twenty Five Slipping Slipping Away

Book:Thin Skin

Source: Thin Skin

“Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.”

Thinking Giving Feels Seems Age Morning Worry Worst Personality Calling Moon Losing Twenties Golden Melancholy Warmth Fifteen Persist Worthless Brilliance Radiance Early Morning

Book:This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.”

Source: Black Heart

“I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.”

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Book:William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words

Source: William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words

“I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.”

People Years Used Fiction Worst Example Fields Percent Twenties Science Fiction Defense Conclusion Repeats Revelations Ninety Ammunition

Author:Theodore Sturgeon