#twenty

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attend #calculation #children #cost #inhabiting

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill. ↗

— Chris LeDoux

#luck #percent #probably #skill #twenty

Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#area #been #collision #dynamics #especially

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#far #hard #how #how far #in the past

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work. ↗

— Philip Levine

#crummy #detroit #doing #fact #going

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty. ↗

— Robert Casey

#access #children #during #had #into

Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside. ↗

— Zell Miller

#campaign #deep #deep inside #how #inside

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

#ageing #always #appeal #been #course

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it. ↗

— Alice Munro

#around #day #else #fitted #had

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#bryan #county #family #fifteen #found