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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life
First
Thirty
Give
Supply
Years
Text
Commentary
Us
Next
Forty
Forty Years
Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.
Joyce Meyer
God
Complaining
Complain
Wilderness
Entered
Promised
Promised Land
Obeyed
Could
Years
Just
Land
Forty
Forty Years
Wasted
Murmuring
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal
Living
Every
Think
Virus
Earth
Bacteria
Both
Attacked
Host
Years
Die
Dies
Being
Either
Double
Organism
Forty
Forty Years
Billions
Whose
Numbers
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Sometimes
Old
Young
Seventy
Hopeful
More
Cheerful
Years
Than
Far
Forty
Forty Years
'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!
Andrew Gross
Sad
Life
Eyes
Events
Nephew
Past
Real Life
Own
Young
Suicide
Other
Took
Kid
Charles
My Own
Troubled
Shape
Open
Bottom
California
None
Cliff
Real
Years
Encounter
Years Ago
Than
Central
Straight
Landmark
Manson
Forty
Forty Years
Who
Found
Wide
Second
Chance
Two
The U.S. Constitution guarantees women across this country, including my daughters, the right to choose for themselves when and how to start their families. Yet, more than forty years after Roe v. Wade, women's reproductive rights remain in jeopardy.
Mike Quigley
Constitution
Rights
Women
Country
More
Remain
Daughters
How
Wade
Years
Roe
Families
Than
After
Reproductive
Themselves
Across
Choose
Forty
Forty Years
Including
Jeopardy
Right
Start
Guarantees
We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.
Monica Johnson
God
Grateful
Problem
Complaining
Think
Jews
Guilty
Ourselves
Would
More
Lightly
Look
Does
Were
Been
Years
Up
Ended
Done
May
Wandering
Us
Forty
Forty Years
Reason
Desert
For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.
Sun Yat-sen
Myself
Freedom
People
Equality
Cause
Revolution
Aim
Devoted
Years
Nations
China
View
Forty
Forty Years
Among
Elevation
Position
Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
Ali Khamenei
Rights
People
Human Rights
Those
Outspoken
Countries
Most
Advocating
Been
Years
Grabbed
Human
Themselves
Forty
Forty Years
Who
Fundamental
Last
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
Allen Tate
Art
Seriously
Nothing
Kind
Phrase
Poetry
Take
Written
Wrong
Sake
Years
Years Ago
Mean
Forty
Forty Years
England
More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
History
Chapter
Dark
Opportunity
Unhappy
Rule
Eastern
Eastern Europe
More
Resulted
Division
Years
Close
Than
Artificial
Central
Communist
Forty
Forty Years
Europe
European
Now
In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Andrzej Wajda
Time
Reality
People
Preserved
Our
Our People
Worst
Characteristics
Some
Economic
Developed
Were
Years
Historical
Traits
Common
Republic
Centuries
Forty
Forty Years
Even
Included
For forty years, I've worn the same Azzaro Uomo fragrance.
Brunello Cucinelli
Fragrance
Worn
Years
Same
Forty
Forty Years
But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
Charlie Sheen
Funny
You
Matter
Focus
Sheep
Know
How
Been
Years
Rhymes
Asleep
Forty
Forty Years
Things
Sleep
Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.
Chiang Kai-shek
Work
Love
People
Sacrifice
Leader
Understanding
Sympathy
Late
Our
Liberation
Sun
Carried
Spirit
Brought
About
His
Years
Oppressed
Revolutionary
Chinese
Chinese People
Forty
Forty Years
Dr
Jesus
Universal
Profound
Last
Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?
Dorothy Thompson
Needs
Vote
Women
Own
Lobby
Take
Had
Over
Obvious
Sort
Causes
Years
Up
Organizations
Forty
Forty Years
Washington
Why
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
Ernest Istook
Life
Time
Technology
Respect
Innocent
Promises
Sacrifice
Thirty
Ways
We Cannot
Exaggerated
Pursue
Years
Same
Human
Same Time
Cannot
Human Life
Forty
Forty Years
Now
Medical
Vague
Treatments
Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
Errol Morris
Good
People
Fear
Country
Reflect
Down
Think
Damn
Once
Some
Perhaps
Ideas
Issues
Years
Years Ago
Died
Done
Going
Stop
Movie
Hole
Again
Rabbit
Vietnam
Forty
Forty Years
Here
Millions
I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
Floyd Abrams
You
Book
Better
Problems
Down
Think
Thirty
Back
Those
Would
Some
Cases
Shape
Better Shape
Had
Over
Come
Look
Deals
Been
Years
Than
Forty
Forty Years
Serious
Now
Last
One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.
Fred Korematsu
Takes
Make
Make A Difference
Years
Person
Difference
Forty
Forty Years
Even
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.
Fred Saberhagen
Me
About
Been
Years
Done
Forty
Forty Years
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.
Fred Saberhagen
Time
Book
Stress
Few
Books
Bad
Some
Through
Bad Time
Come
Most
Readers
Years
Comments
Times
Happened
Ordinary
Them
Forty
Forty Years
Who
Helping
Lives
Credit
Actually
Appreciate
I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
Gary Glitter
Will
Incomplete
Thinking
Sung
About
Finish
Days
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Continue
Been
Years
Roll
Jail
Want
After
Plan
Forty
Forty Years
Album
So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.
Gunther Schuller
Alone
Musicians
Together
Thirty
Extraordinary
Later
Those
Thousand
City
Find
Something
Could
Put
New
Days
Years
Up
York
Scrape
Orchestra
New York
New York City
Mean
If I Could
Forty
Forty Years
Whole
Twenty
Now
Things
When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.
Henry Rollins
Singing
Think
Lying
He
Over
Conclude
Still
Years
Get
Mick Jagger
Rolling
Stones
Any
Rolling Stones
Jagger
Being
Either
Forty
Forty Years
Satisfaction
Bright
I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.
Herbie Hancock
Me
Humanity
Path
Own
Others
Recognizing
My Own
Buddhism
Practising
Been
Years
Discovering
Led
Forty
Forty Years
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