#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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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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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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