#forty

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

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#athlete #authorities #chances #even #forty

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. ↗

— Stendhal

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#forty years #make #nobility #now #our

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf. ↗

— James Stockdale

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#any #around #bay #beach #became