Fifteen Quotes - Page 27

• Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Passion, Thinking

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• For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Pennies

  Song: Haikus Sonnet Shakespeare, Album: Words Words Words

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• Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, Differences, Feet

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• The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen different answers to every question. All of them right.

  Olivia Robertson

  Different, Answers, Knows

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• I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Party, Character

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• The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

  Simon Newcomb

  Teaching, Twenties, Miles

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I've written. It also helped me find my wife.

  Ben Mezrich

  Book, Wife, Office

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I had a good run here, fifteen years. That's a great run. I'm not saying that I'm done in center field - if I could play there forever, I would. But I know that's not reality, so I'm happy.

  Bernie Williams

  Running, Reality, Years

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• The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Years, Religion, Development

  Andrew Dickson White (1930). “History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom”, p.266, Library of Alexandria

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• Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America and domesticate the earth. Leading the resistance is the Buffalo Field Campaign, a brave, dedicated group of activists. This hardy tribe lives out in the cold winters of Yellowstone, risking their freedom and lives to stand by their brown brethren in the hair coats.

  Doug Peacock

  Book, Winter, Years

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• Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

  James B. Donovan

  Jesus, Eight, Years

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• There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

  Burt Rutan

  Future, Years, Sky

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• "No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First, no one else is doing this because there is no market for it. Second, the entrepreneur is so clueless that he can't even use Google to figure out he has competition. Suffice it to say that the lack of a market and cluelessness is not conducive to securing an investment. As a rule of thumb, if you have a good idea, five companies are going the same thing. If you have a great idea, fifteen companies are doing the same thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Lying, Clueless, Ideas

  Guy Kawasaki (2008). “Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition”, p.48, Penguin

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• I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.

  Jay Asher

  Husband, Years, Want

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.

  Harold Robbins

  Sex, Age, Trouble

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• It has been estimated that of the world Jew population of approximately fifteen millions, no fewer than five million are in the United States. Twenty-five percent of the inhabitants of New York are Jews. During the Great War we bought off this huge American Jewish public by the promise of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, held by Ludendorff to be the master stroke of Allied propaganda as it enabled us not only to appeal to Jews in America but to Jews in Germany as well.

  Sidney Robertson Cowell

  New York, War, Home

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• We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.

  Eric Martinot

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

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• Girls are like buses, miss one, next fifteen, one comin.

  Gucci Mane

  Girl, Rapper, Missing

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• Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Clever, Work

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• At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

  Jung Chang

  Grandmother, Age, Warlords

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• When you look at what Star (casino) has done for Sydney over the last fifteen years.. I don't think it has done a lot. When you look at what Crown (his casino) has done for Melbourne, I think it has done an enormous amount. And there's all sorts of statistics and figures and facts that can back those things up.

  James Packer

  Stars, Thinking, Australia

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