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• If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

  Brenda Ueland

  Mother, Children, Doors

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.

  Chris Hadfield

  Smile, Mean, Weather

  "Interview with Atlantis astronauts". Interview with John Holliman, www.cnn.com. November 14, 1995.

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• I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

  Albert Einstein

  World, Fifty, Defining

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• Near the end of his life, my father proved to be, at his core, a very polite, chivalrous man. He walked the halls of the facility where he lived, introducing himself and shaking people's hands as he had done at Rotary meetings. He complimented the nurses, ‘You have a lovely figure.’ He could also eat an entire 2 lb. box of See's Candies in an afternoon, which requires considerable effort with stage five Parkinson's disease.

  Jennifer L. Knox

  Father, Men, Hands

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• In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.

  Eric Newby

  Two, May, Way

  Eric Newby (1966). “Slowly Down the Ganges”

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• I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

  C. Everett Koop

  Children, Doctors, Justice

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• Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Jul 22, 2011

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• I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Mother, Purple, Insane

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• The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This In Five Years.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Regret, Government, Years

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• If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

  Evita Peron

  Argentina, Each Day, Turns

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• Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

  Warren Adler

  Morning, Writing, Careers

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• We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Dream, Regret

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Nov 30, 2012

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• I guess the reasons against having more children always seem uninspiring and superficial. What exactly am I missing out on? Money? A few more hours of sleep? A more peaceful meal? More hair? These are nothing compared to what I get from these five monsters who rule my life.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Children, Sleep, Hair

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.240, Crown Archetype

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• The evolution of one's own soul is a process. It's not a quick fix. It's not a five-day workshop. It's a lifetime process where we let go, discover and then allow for futures to come into existence.

  Debbie Ford

  Letting Go, Soul, Evolution

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• Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Dropping Out, Six, Historic

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• Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!

  Darren Clarke

  Matter, Forests, Hard

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• Well, the world has changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look: Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?

  Alan Grant

  Running, Men, Years

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• Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  Harold Pinter

  Past, Years, Earth

  Harold Pinter (2013). “The Homecoming”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• Every five-year-old kid should have a pair of happy pajamas. (217)

  Heather Gudenkauf

  Kids, Should Have, Years

  Heather Gudenkauf (2013). “The Weight of Silence: A Novel of Suspense”, p.217, Harlequin

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• My signature is the one that Hyun Joong hyung made for me five years ago, but I’m still using it.

  Kim Hyung-jun

  Years, Signatures, Made

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• If only Heaven will give me just another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

  Hokusai

  Real, Years, Giving

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• I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects I hope that every professional gay will say 'enough', come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Frustration, Doctors

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• You know, when Arnold Palmer came on TV with an old tractor and told me to buy Pennzoil, I bought that, and when Dale Jarrett advertises UPS, I can go along with that, too. But I don't think having an 18-year-old, somebody who's probably gotten five packages in his life and they were all 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, tell me what delivery service I should use would have much effect on me.

  Kyle Petty

  Girl, Thinking, Years

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• I don't want to say, 'This is where I'm going to be in five years and I'm going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.

  Brooke Burke

  Stars, Years, Dying

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