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• Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

  Gianfranco Zola

  Soccer, Football, Stupid

  "Tuesday's football transfer rumours: Heskey to Aston Villa?" by Les Roopanarine, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2008.

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• I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Fighting, Schedules, Four

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• I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, — and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes — each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs — quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

  Laurence Sterne, James P. Browne (1873). “The Works of Lawrence Sterne: In Four Volumes, with a Life of the Author, Written by Himself”, p.333

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• It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

  James Boswell

  Years, World, Spirit

  James Boswell, John Wilson Croker, John Wright (1839). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides”, p.59

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• If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.

  Helen Thomas

  Age, President, Politics

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• If you bring five percent more awareness to your work tomorrow, or to your most important relationship, what might you do differently? Are you willing to find out?

  Nathaniel Branden

  Important Relationships, Might, Tomorrow

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.393, Simon and Schuster

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• I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Book, Rejection, Three

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• A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman.

  Gracie Allen

  Children, Pregnancy, Doctors

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• When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Perseverance, Jesus, Crazy

  "Bethany Hamilton; AnnaSophia Robb". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. March 31, 2011.

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• I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

  Amar Bose

  Years, Sound, Looks

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• If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Morning, Years, Clothes

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• After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Men, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

  B. F. Skinner

  Men, Years, Twenties

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• Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Together, Bangs

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• In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.

  Thorsten Heins

  Thinking, Years, Tablets

  "BlackBerry CEO Questions Future of Tablets". Bloomberg Technology, April 30, 2013.

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• History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.

  Thorsten Heins

  Iphone, Years, Innovation

  "BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated" by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com. March 18, 2013.

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• A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Promise, Principles

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.24, Xist Publishing

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• Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smoking, Romance, Lifetime

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• Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

  John Burroughs

  Keys, Two, Voice

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• Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.

  Peg Bracken

  Tombstone, Long, People

  "I Didn't Come Here to Argue (The Sunrise Collector: What to Do till Your Horoscope Gets There)". Book by Peg Bracken (Fawcett Crest edition, p. 37), 1969.

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• [V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Garden, Weather, Ivory

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• Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

  Stephen Leacock

  Clever, Tired, Reality

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “My Discovery of England”, p.101, The Floating Press

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• I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

  Helen Fielding

  Book, Hands, Research

  "Chat with author Helen Fielding". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2000.

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• When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.

  John Lennon

  Suicide, Drinking, Believe

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• On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

  Thornton Wilder

  Friday, July, Bridges

  Thornton Wilder (1956). “A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros”

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