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• The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

  John Updike

  Book, Errors, Lasts

  John Updike (2013). “More Matter: Essays And Criticism”, p.866, Penguin UK

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• My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Summer, Moving

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• A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

  Thomas Tusser

  Money, Italian, Taxation

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• I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.

  John Keats

  Caring, Thinking, Feet

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 18 July 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 342

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• I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Giving, Four

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• From Bonheur de Vivre - I was thirty-five then - to this cut-out - I am eighty-two - I have not changed; not in the way my friends mean who want to compliment me, no matter what, on my good health, but because all this time I have looked for the same things, which I have perhaps realized by different means.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Cutting, Two

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.

  Pete Hamill

  Song, Mean, Hair

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• I have a sixth sense, but not the other five. If I wasn't making money, they'd put me away.

  Red Skelton

  Making Money, Sixth Sense, Ifs

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• The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.

  Henri Rousseau

  Leadership, Years, Training

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• When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

  Dogen

  Jewels, Cake, Rocks

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• It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Animal, Quality, Elements

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• What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

  Martin Seligman

  Zero, Enabling, Plus

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• My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Husband, Book, Writing

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• I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.

  Yves Klein

  Childhood, Five Senses, Proof

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p. 19, 1974.

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• "God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten
  But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

  Macklemore

  Children, Book, Years

  "Song: 'Same Love'". 2012.

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• I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Curves, Years, Planning

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• Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.

  David L. Katz

  Opportunity, Thinking, Mirrors

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• There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.

  Karen MacNeil

  Wine, Dollars, Bottles

  "Wine prices: How much to pay". www.cnn.com.

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• We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we have worked diligently alongside Radio One to build their business in the markets we have historically represented including Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia , Raleigh and Columbus. At a time of significant growth in the African American consumer market the addition of the remaining Radio One stations expands our ability to deliver strategic marketing solutions to our agency and advertiser customers.

  Steve Shaw

  Past, Agency, Years

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• About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.

  Rick Carlisle

  Running, Years, Tree

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• Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.

  Joseph Cirincione

  Iran, Years, Trying

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• My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

  Doc Severinsen

  Acres, Neighbor, Goodness

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• Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.

  Ellen Meloy

  Alaska, Squares, America

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• Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

  Robert Genn

  Tombstone, Years, Lasts

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• Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

  Robert Bateman

  Art, Frustration, Challenges

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