#forty years

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

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In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

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I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

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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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For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. ↗

— Mike Pence

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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