#decade

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. ↗

— John O'Hara

#barbarism #being #civilization #country #decadence

When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.' ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#clicked #daddy #decade #doing #down

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again. ↗

— Barack Obama

#again #always #america #back #basics

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. ↗

— Barack Obama

#agents #around #been #decades #denied

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#decades #healthier #helped #improvements #investment

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#decades #interest #me #people #roaring

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#decades #good #history #much #over

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#bracket #called #decade #imagine #into

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist. ↗

— Matt Stone

#atheist #back #decades #few #i

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades. ↗

— Paul Hirsch

#been #career #changes #decades #i