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• I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

  John Dos Passos

  Writing, Firsts, Seven

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.

  Toni Morrison

  Wall, Taken, Writing

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• It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Thinking, Six Months

  The Paris Review, 1956.

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• I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

  Julian Bream

  Player, Guitar, Practice

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• It was six of a half and one dozen of the other.

  Danny Higginbotham

  Football, Half, Dozen

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• Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.

  Julian Dicks

  Football, Dog, Rottweilers

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• He's six-foot two, brave as a lion, strong as an ox and quick as lightning. If he was good looking, you'd say he has everything.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Strong, Two

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• The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him....Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Kids, Feel Better

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• Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Two, Pet

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• When you talk about Lacrosse, you talk about the lifeblood of the six nations. The game is ingrained into our culture and our system and our lives. (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora)

  Oren Lyons

  Games, Lacrosse, Mohawks

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• There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.

  Lance Armstrong

  Nice, One Day, Different

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• In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Hockey

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• I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

  Jane Wagner

  Goal, Worry, Tunes

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• I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation... time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock... I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Thoughtful, Views

  "The San Francisco Examiner" Newspaper, August 26, 1928.

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• Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.

  Woody Guthrie

  Gun, Men, Democracy

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• I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest vigorously the idea that the climate reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat: just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached.

  Hendrik Tennekes

  Home, Numbers, Sea

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• It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mind, World, May

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.211, Modern Library

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• I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.

  Colonel Sanders

  Years, Trying, Dollars

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• There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.

  Paul Reiser

  Dope, Men, Guy

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• What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two chapters of the Bible are a virtual travelogue of our heavenly home. To visualize heaven accurately, study the Bible continually.

  David Jeremiah

  Book, Home, Thinking

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• Need A Six In Pressure Situation? Call MS DHONI.

  Rameez Raja

  Epic, Ms Dhoni, Needs

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• When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Epic, Dhoni, Finals

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• On the whole, my family had always adopted a reserved attitude toward Zionism; my great-uncle Edmond had acted on his own in generously supporting Jewish Palestine, for reasons more humanitarian and religious than political. But the devastation caused by the war and the extermination of six million Jews radically changed all of our former attitudes. The idea of a Jewish homeland acquired an intense emotional appeal; I myself became an ardent Zionist.

  Guy de Rothschild

  Religious, Uncles, Attitude

  Guy De Rothschild (1985). “The Whims of Fortune: The Memoirs of Guy de Rothschild”, Random House Inc

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• As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Father, Character

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.39, Stanford University Press

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• Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

  Virginia Woolf

  Expression, Giving, Sound

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