#fifteen

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

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As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

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Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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I have like fifteen televisions in my house. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

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You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet. ↗

— Alan King

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Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

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