“ A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp. ”
- Joan Rivers- Copy
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“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”
- Dame Edith Sitwell- Copy
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“ Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
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“ Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments. ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
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“ As part of it's 'Astro' program LAPD helicopters maintain an average nineteen-hours-per-day vigil over 'high crime areas', tactically coordinated to patrol car forces, and exceeding even the British Army's aerial surveillance of Belfast. ”
- Mike Davis- Copy
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“ But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it. ”
- Judith Viorst- Copy
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“ If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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