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• I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Cutting, Wind

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• Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

  David Bronstein

  Kings, Games, Chess

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• The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. ... We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Religious, Home, Welfare Programs

  "To Men of the Priesthood". General Conference, www.lds.org. October 2002.

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• I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

  George Sand

  Mother, Grief, Thinking

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• Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Jesus, Ocean

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.158, Discovery House

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• We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Helping, Improvement, Minutes

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.15, Penguin

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• Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Years, Games

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• We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Two, Plot, Three

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• You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

  Helen Hunt

  Thank You, Remember, Enjoy

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• Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

  Sean Lennon

  Dirty, Water, Tone

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• There are many things which no teacher can convey to a child of three, but a child of five can do it with ease.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Three

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• No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Art, Justice, Branches

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1987). “Hell screen ; Cogwheels ; A fool's life”, Eridanos Library

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• You don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems. She didn't know at twenty-three.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Love, Lying, Team

  Rainbow Rowell (2014). “Landline: A Novel”, p.201, St. Martin's Press

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• I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.

  Sue Grafton

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Home, Agreement, United States

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• Our real reality is beyond the five senses.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Five Senses, Reality

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• They didn't train me to be in the ring for five and a half hours punching air. So, it was hard, I had to get some body contact in there somewhere, it was mostly body shots and stuff. I had no clue, really.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Air, Half, Body

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• There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

  Elvis Costello

  Music, Song, Believe

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• Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.

  Hermann Weyl

  Couple, Book, Math

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• The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Morning, Real

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• I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Wise, Men, Feet

  Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.79, Moody Publishers

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• A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Believe, Adults

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• The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple “first” things.

  Greg McKeown

  Reality, Talking, Years

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.

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• If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

  Vince Lombardi

  Minutes, Late, Ten

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• Your vision of your future will help you press forward. Take a few minutes to envision where you want to be in one year or two or five. Then take action to prepare yourselves. People don’t just run a marathon when they decide to do it. They must train daily, slowly building stamina and endurance to run the 26.2-mile distance. So it is with life. It is daily diligence with prayer and scripture study that will help you reach your goals. Your daily decisions will influence generations.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Running, Prayer, Distance

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