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• Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Two, People

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• Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

  Paul Harvey

  Writing, Golf, Games

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• There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.

  Billy Sunday

  Jesus, Names, Two

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

  Peter Lynch

  Luck, Investing, Nine

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• You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

  H. G. Wells

  Insomnia, Long, Mind

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3207, Delphi Classics

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• Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

  Frank J. Prial

  Drinking, Wine, Writing

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• I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

  Nina Simone

  Success, Determination, Practice

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• Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.

  Marlo Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Men

  Sun-tzu, Hagopian Institute (2008). “Art of War, Plain English Edition: One of the Greatest Strategy Books in the History of the World, Now in an Easy to Read Version”, p.64, Hagopian Institute

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• I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?" "No, about six months before that. Right after New Year's. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae's. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized...I minded.

  Suzanne Collins

  New Year, Eye, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.199, Scholastic Inc.

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• Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.

  Stephen Covey

  Workout, Health, Exercise

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.365, Mango Media Inc.

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• Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.

  Thomas Boswell

  Team, Golf, Hockey

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• And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask brand-new citizens to affirm their devotion to the law, is it too much to ask that the president do the same?

  Trey Gowdy

  Bad Ass, Law, President

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• They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Army, May, Hundred

  Desiderius Erasmus (1959). “The Praise of Folly”

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• You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

  Elia Kazan

  Inspirational, Fighting, Risk

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• It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

  Ben Jonson

  Time, Sleep, Wind

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Works: Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected with Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.134

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• Shout out to all my niggas livin tax free. Nowadays it's six figures when they tax me.

  Drake

  Humble, Bragging, Figures

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• Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

  Douglas Adams

  Alcohol, World, Bitter

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.38, Del Rey

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• Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's absolutely no drag, so if you do happen to spin it, it won't slice or hook 'cause there's no atmosphere to make it turn.

  Alan Shepard

  Golf, Atmosphere, Balls

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• Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.

  Louise Suggs

  Golf, Games, Ears

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• Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there ... lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger.

  Alan Coren

  Simple, Discovery, People

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.126, Canongate Books

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• I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back — and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!

  Malcolm X

  Grateful, Men, Thinking

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

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• I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

  Heinrich Heine

  Peace, Crazy, Flower

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• What's the difference between a three-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Nfl Players, Differences

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