"Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten."

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Source : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

Stella Benson

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“Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.”
“No one is perfect and everyone is different, but everyone one is beautiful in their own way and that's what makes us special.For me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from India on international platform and a lot of people actually would assume that I wasn`t even educated in India because of the way I'd speak.”
“After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.”
“Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic society, in which the leaders think and make decisions for everyone, we will become a country of intelligent, free and responsible people”

Source : "Medvedev wants Russia to go hi-tech" by Maxim Tkachenko, edition.cnn.com. November 12, 2009.
“Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.”
“When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.”
“The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.”

Source : Kwame Anthony Appiah (2015). “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”, p.8, Penguin UK
“I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.”

Source : "Kyle Dunnigan on the commercial futility of 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas'". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. December 10, 2013.

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