Five Quotes - Page 39

• It leaves a good legacy to have five records.

  Theophilus London

  Legacy, Records

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• I am essence of Rose Solitude
  my cheeks are laced with cognac
  my hips sealed with five satin nails
  I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old
  flames
  between the musk of fat
  and the side pocket of my mink tongue.

  Jayne Cortez

  Dream, Flames, Essence

  Jayne Cortez (2002). “Jazz fan looks back”, Hanging Loose Pr

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• As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions:
  (1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps. 1-36);
  (2) The Book of the Similitudes (chaps. 37-7l)-,
  (3) The Book of Astronomical Writings (chaps. 72-82);
  (4) The Book of Dream Visions (chaps. 83-90); and
  (5) The Book of the Epistle of Enoch (chaps. 91-107).

  Craig A. Evans

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• I'm lucky, I guess. I only really need five or so hours of sleep.

  Cliff Sloan

  Sleep, Lucky, Needs

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• A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.

  Mark Barnes

  Teacher, Teaching, Peers

  Mark Barnes (2013). “The 5-Minute Teacher: How do I maximize time for learning in my classroom? (ASCD Arias)”, p.13, ASCD

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• I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

  Steve Gleason

  Two, Average, Talking

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• Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Five Senses, Importance, Duty

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• I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.

  Cindy Margolis

  Play, People, Trying

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• In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.

  John Dos Passos

  Years, People, Twenties

  John Dos Passos, Library of America (Firm) (2003). “Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941”

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• I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Ideas, Silence, Retreat

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like I always had an ear. I have the ability and the gift to hear a song and really play it in a matter of five to 10 minutes and make my own version out of it. So it's always been easy playing by ear.

  Jeremih

  Song, Play, Ears

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.

  Anna Olson

  Writing, Exercise, Mind

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• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  Burleigh Grimes

  Kids, Men, Curves

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• I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Sex, Block

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• If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.

  Dan Pallotta

  Sweet, Long, Risk

  Dan Pallotta (2012). “Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

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• I don't see a lot of guys that have done that [winning three times before age 24], besides Tiger Woods, of course, and, you know, the other legends of the game. It's just one of those things, I believe in myself and – especially with how hard I've worked – I'm one of the top five players in the world. I feel like I've proven myself.

  Patrick Reed

  Believe, Winning, Player

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• At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fate, Drawing, Years

  "The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (On the Vanity and Suffering of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (1819), as translated by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp in "The World as Will and Idea" (p. 389), 1886.

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• We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Years, Class

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.159, Fordham Univ Press

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• Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

  Coventry Patmore

  God, Mistake, Five Senses

  1896 The Rod, the Root, and the Flower,'Aurea Dicta', no.142.

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• One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

  Doris Lessing

  Philosophy, Should Have, Quality

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When you have five or six potential hall of famers on your team ... that's when you win penants and championships. The only thing you have to be concerned about is getting the ballplayers to bed on time.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Team, Winning, Bed

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• Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Business, Passion

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• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

  William S. Burroughs

  Marijuana, Mushrooms, Addiction

  "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness". William S. Burroughs' introduction to his book "Naked Lunch" (pp. 199-201), 1960 edition.

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• One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fire, Average, Dollar Bills

  "Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

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• A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.

  William Powell

  Eye, Night, Light

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Postscript", p. 157, 1971.

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