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• The Jews are a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also department orders and are herein expelled from the department within 24 hours from receipt of this order.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Order, Class, Regulation

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• The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Energy, Half, Moments

  "Adrianne Palicki: I fell in love with the script … and the costumes!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Sleep, Two

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• Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

  John Phillips

  Pain, Yield, Littles

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• I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Blood, Sitting, Sugar

  "Mary-Louise Parker Discusses The End Of Weeds". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. August 3, 2012.

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• Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

  Maggie Q

  Weekend, Night, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.

  Amy Ray

  Couple, Writing, Years

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

  Christina Romer

  Powerful, Offering, Competition

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• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Limits, Speed

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• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  Aaron Tveit

  Two, Half, Lines

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• I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Passion, Years, Two

  "Cars That Drive Themselves". Interview with Jason Spingarn-Koff and Joe Seamans, www.pbs.org. March 28, 2006.

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• You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.

  Lili Taylor

  Quality, Way, Bigger

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• I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

  Alicia Vikander

  Training, Six, Foundation

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• I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

  Stuart Woods

  Couple, Writing, Solitude

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• Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.

  Amy Weber

  Country, Car, Middle

  "Amy Weber bikini babe". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?

  Mark Wahlberg

  Men, Thinking, Three

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• I spent hours as a kid on the putting green of the local golf course imagining I was sinking a putt to win the Masters.

  Mike Weir

  Kids, Golf, Winning

  Skysports.com Interview, www.skysports.com. July 3, 2011.

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• Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sunset, Buddhism, Practice

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• What you focus on you become. If you spend an hour or two a day meditating and focusing on light, then you will eventually become light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Two

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• We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.

  Peter J. McGuire

  Work, Color, Organization

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• Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Perseverance, Progress, Enthusiasm

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• I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, New York, Mean

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• Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Education, Time, Buckets

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• In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Crazy, Rip

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• I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Mother, Law, Two

  "The Playlist Profile: Melanie Lynskey Talks Hollywood, ‘Hello I Must Be Going,’ ‘Heavenly Creatures’ & More" by Maris James, www.indiewire.com. September 04, 2012.

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