#twenty

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#fifty #incommunicable #know #knows #man

For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing. ↗

— Meg Jay

#psychology #twentysomethings #nature

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#back #box #boxes #business #cardboard

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative. ↗

— John Zorn

#breaks #cooperative #even #every #grand

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man. ↗

— Gregory Corso

#come #course #go #greenwich #greenwich village

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party. ↗

— Joan Crawford

#had #heard #home #i #interesting

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. ↗

— Francis Crick

#amino #bases #biochemical #biochemistry #ever

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#ago #be the first #california #crimes #donald

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. ↗

— Will Durant

#centuries #earth #events #hours #informed

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty. ↗

— William Odom

#allied #every #germany #had #hundred