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• Yeah, I've always been different. I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.

  Georgia Cates

  Different, Normal, Yeah

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• More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Children, Epidemics, Childhood

  Morgan Spurlock (2006). “Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America”, p.65, Penguin

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• When I was growing up, my dad would encourage my brother and I to fail. We would be sitting at the dinner table and he would ask, 'So what did you guys fail at this week?' If we didn't have something to contribute, he would be disappointed. When I did fail at something, he'd high-five me. What I didn't realize at the time was that he was completely reframing my definition of failure at a young age. To me, failure means not trying; failure isn't the outcome. If I have to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'I didn't try that because I was scared,' that is failure.

  Sara Blakely

  Success, Brother, Growing Up

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• Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Atheist, Italian, People

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2010

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• You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Writing, Years, Generosity

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• This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Beer, Balls

  "Boogers Are My Beat". Book by Dave Barry, September, 2003.

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• And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.

  Jenny Offill

  Baby, Lying, Sleep

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.22, Vintage

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• The same wind blows on us all. The economic wind, the social wind, the political wind. The same wind blows on everybody. The difference in where you arrive in one year, three years, five years, the difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.

  Jim Rohn

  Blow, Years, Wind

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• If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Forever, Looks, May

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• As for hot songs...there are five in Dhoom 3, and I hope they are all hot!

  Katrina Kaif

  Song, Hot

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• Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.

  Ruby Wax

  Years, Fake, Pox

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• If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.

  Saul Williams

  Eye, Poetry, Darkness

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

  Cheng Man-ch'ing

  Medicine, Poetry, Excellence

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• I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Years, Europe, Four

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• One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'

  Johan Galtung

  Europe, Broken, Community

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• Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first shooting)...The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with assassination if he continued to use Laetrile.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Cancer, Dark, Night

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• The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures.

  Ivan Illich

  Dark, Drug, Suffering

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• There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Years, Today, Problem

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• If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

  Rene Descartes

  War, Math, Battle

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• In Israel, the maximum legal penalty for denying the existence of God is one year in prison, while the punishment for denying the existence of the Holocaust is up to five years' imprisonment.

  Ward Churchill

  Israel, Years, Punishment

  Ward Churchill (1998). “A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present”, p.15, City Lights Books

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• You know, we've been right on everything, haven't we? We told people about drones five years ago, didn't we? We told people about the NSA five years ago, didn't we? We told them about indefinite detention. We told them you can't come after the internet, that's unconstitutional. You can't do warrantless searches, that's unconstitutional.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Nsa, Years

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• You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.

  Harry Reid

  Bully, Today, Six

  "House, Senate Stay Faithful To Their Measures". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, David Greene, www.npr.org. October 1, 2013.

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• Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions, but report back to us next January. Now move along.' ... If nearly half of what you make is spent by someone else, that means that half your work time is spent working for someone else. Call me a radical, but I think that comes dangerously close to being a form of indentured servitude.

  Dick Armey

  Moving, Ambition, Mean

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• If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

  Jim Bouton

  Baseball, Winning, Years

  Jim Bouton (1970). “Ball four: my life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the Big Leagues”, Dell Pub Co

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• Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had everything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

  W. H. Auden

  Teacher, Children, War

  "The Unknown Citizen" l. 22 (1939)

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