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My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Summer, Father, Winter

Jenkin Lloyd Jones (2016). “An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask the question, well how many worlds are we talking about? Well do the math, there are about 100 billion galaxies that are in the visible universe and each galaxy in turn contains about 100 billion stars, you multiply and you get about ten billion trillion stars. Well I think it is the height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in the universe, my attitude is that the universe is teaming, teaming with different kinds of life forms

Michio Kaku

Stars, Attitude, Believe

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That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins.

Jay Leno

Kids, Today, Terrorism

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Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

Natalie Babbitt

Children, Years, Tennessee

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If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?

Elias Chacour

Issues, People, Giving

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If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

Robert Baden-Powell

Boys, Men, Minutes

Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

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With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and militarily. So when people ask what's the best course of action for the U.S.-China relationship, I can give you ten academic responses. But the reality is we need to rebuild our core.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Reality, People, Giving

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there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

Ernestine Rose

Luxury, World, Owing

Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

Anandi Gopal Joshi

Women, People, Religion

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As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.

John Taylor Gatto

Mother, School, Boys

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It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.

Hermann Hesse

Eye, Men, Giving

Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

Hugo Black

Rights, Government, People

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Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.

Nhat Hanh

Flower, Anger, Walking Meditation

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Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.

Burton Malkiel

Gambling, Odds, Order

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If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the moment the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced?

Philip Arthur Fisher

Years, Growth, Investing

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The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Theodore Roosevelt

Religion, Should, Ten Commandments

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I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rocks, Years, Giving

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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

Gary Hamel

Thoughtful, Years, Singing

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Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intelligent, Men, Years

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.387

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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one,
if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.

Florence Nightingale

Girl, Pride, Opportunity

Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale (1930). “Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England”

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In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.

W. C. Fields

Running, Home, Average

"DVD Retro Rec: The W.C. Fields Comedy Collection" by Mark Bourne, www.mtv.com. September 29, 2008.

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A new medical study reports that men who eat ten pizzas a week are less likely to develop prostate problems at age 50. That's because they are usually dead by age 40.

Jay Leno

Men, Age, Medical

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

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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

Jesse Owens

Nine, Yards, Three

Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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Ten thousand years as Intercontinental Champion, Oooooh yeeeah!

Randy Savage

Years, Champion, Thousand

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Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gallon of tap water. We enjoy the most intimate of relationships with our public drinking water, whether we want to or not.

Sandra Steingraber

Drinking, Water, Environmental

Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.95, Da Capo Press

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