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Most people are not updated. 50 years ago 1 in 5 children died before age 5, now only 1 in 20!
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error.
I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.
Many years ago I chased a woman for almost two years, only to discover that her tastes were exactly like mine: we both were crazy about girls.
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.
I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.
Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota these days.
Thats the fun of going to a high school reunion: its seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.
We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.
We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.
Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!
I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage.
God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.
Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.
Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on.
Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong
Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.
We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment, but the engagement of our customers.
About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.
I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.
I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.
The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.
It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.
To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'