#twenty

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#chance #cloth #coat #conditions #contained

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. ↗

— Will Durant

#last #little #most #much #six

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars. ↗

— Will Durst

#driving #iraqi #know #means #twenty

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#anything #back #certain #could #education

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#avoid #been #being #career #grow

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand. ↗

— Pete Rose

#do you know #game #get #go #gone

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. ↗

— William Adams

#between #cape #could #days #feet

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. ↗

— Woody Allen

#i #involves #minutes #peace #read

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#learning #more #than #twenty #year

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#compel #conduct #even #greater #grid