#forty years

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

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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

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The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. ↗

— Michael Crichton

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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

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Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. ↗

— Tony Visconti

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Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy? ↗

— Robert Walpole

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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

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What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years. ↗

— Diane Duane

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