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• Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

  Dick Ebersol

  Son, Letters, Lasts

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• I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

  Steve Finley

  Opportunity, Play, Six

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• And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.

  Herman Gorter

  Country, Two, France

  "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.

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• In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.

  Linda M. Godwin

  Hands, Years, Office

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• Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Jobs, Parent, Together

  "Georgia May Jagger: The Interview" by Christine Lennon, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 15, 2010.

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• It takes only five minutes to look nice before you go out.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Nice, Looks, Minutes

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• That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Strong, Years, Singing

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.

  Henry Adams

  Editing, Flesh, Pages

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.189, Harvard University Press

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• Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Crush, Humor

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1040, e-artnow

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• My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Night, Four

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.117, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be at the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

  Henry C. Link

  Children, People, Forever

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• Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
  Do Justice
  Learn from the World Community
  Nurture People
  Cherish the Natural Order
  Non-Conform Freely.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Order, Justice

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• In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Time, Texas, Years

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• My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me incredibly valuable lessons about the art of taking time-outs. To this day, Bonnie is astutely aware of times when her energy dips too low and resolutely honors her need to rest. To boost her energy, she's been known to sit quietly with a cup of tea, adjourn a workshop we were co-facilitating to take a five-minute breather, or slip out of her own wedding reception to be restored by a few minutes of solitude in the sun.

  Sue Thoele

  Art, Solitude, Tea

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• Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.

  Thomas Dubay

  Faith, Book, Inspiration

  Thomas Dubay (1999). “The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet”, p.163, Ignatius Press

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• [P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

  Thomas Malthus

  Food, Mean, Science

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• I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Moon, Mercury

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources" by James Wood, p. 166, 1893.

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• It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.

  Alex Prager

  Mean, Lasts, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.

  Steve Kroft

  Bridges, People, Needs

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.

  Steve Kroft

  Eight, Bridges, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.

  Vera Farmiga

  Children, Stress, School

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.

  Morgan Freeman

  Different Experiences, Years, Long

  "Morgan Freeman Talks OBLIVION, Working with Tom Cruise, Being Drawn to Sci-Fi and Technology, Shooting a Dual .50 Caliber Machine Gun and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 16, 2013.

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• I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?" And I was like, "Yeah, anything. Twenty-four hours times five is 120 hours. Oh, great, I'll fill 120 hours of my life with something." So I did that and it was fun, and then I did Flirting with Disaster.

  Ben Stiller

  New York, Fun, Flirting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.

  Julianna Margulies

  Years, Actors, Lovers

  Source: variety.com

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• I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago - every five years they have a remembrance on D-Day beaches and I would have liked to have been there and done my bit.

  Eddie Izzard

  Beach, Dad, War

  "Valkyrie - Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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