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Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: About After Another Anything Book Came Check Decades Exceedingly Forward Four Going Judged Know Last Left Like Likely Maybe Me Old Only Out Point Pretty Right Still Success Which Work World Write Years You Young I Write

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Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli construction froze not the settlements but the diplomacy.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Been Construction Decades Decision Demand Diplomacy End Had Israel Israeli Palestinians Settlements Table Together Total Until

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For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Accompanied Arab Behind Decades Deficit Economic Exceptions Freedom Globe Human Human Nature Laws Left Liberty Many Nations Nature Other Parts Political Politics Seemed Social States Were While

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Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Business Competition Dealer Decades Direct Effort Existing Franchise Had Invested Laws Manufacturer Money Open Opening Place Prevent Promote Put Stores Time Unfairly Were

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A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Career Comedian Decades Decent Deserves Documentary Five Over Stand-Up Stand-Up Comedian

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Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never tested the implants in breast tissue and that they received decades of complaints from women. It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to scream!

~Emily Martin

Topics: Appears Clearly Complaints Decades Implants Kind Makes Men Never Products Received Scream Stuff Tested Tissue Want Well Women Women Are You

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To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Abroad Age American City Decades Dominant Figured How However Internet Kind License Many Money Newspaper Only Out Own Print Rescue States United United States

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By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

~Eric Flint

Topics: Age Any Becoming By The Time Craft Decades Did Fiction Fiction Writer Forty-Five Given Over Return Thought Time Two Up Writer

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Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

~Eric Liu

Topics: About America Capitalist China Communists Decades Decline Descendants His Lost Mao Now Power Question Seems Seized Six Stage Stand Washington Who World World Stage Worries

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In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

~Erma Bombeck

Topics: Bracelet Charm Decades Hanging Lost Pounds Should Total Two

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