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I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright
Busted
Five
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Susan Sontag
Able
After
Alone
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The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris
Apart
Beauty
Children
Exactly
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Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.
Francis Chan
Every
Year
My
Life
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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
Orhan Pamuk
Greatest
Error
Biggest
Deception
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A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
Orhan Pamuk
Writer
Someone
Spends
Years
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
Pat Conroy
Almost
Bed
Before
Gone
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
Patrick Dempsey
One
Day
Year
Old
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The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Frank Lloyd
Ahead
Architect
Call
He
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
Hermann Hesse
Age
Brief
Days
Encounters
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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse
Able
Away
Happiness
Moment
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
At Least One
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Begin
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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
Answer
Legs
Prayed
Received
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Altogether
Come
Despite
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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Angel
Brains
Case
Clocks
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Far
Forty
Forty Years
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People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
About
Asked
Been
Cholera
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons
Along
Every
Five
Hundred
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I was 17 years old and missed many things about Barcelona, particularly the food. Fortunately, Sir Alex Ferguson realised my situation and helped me to grow. For me, the gaffer was like a second father.
Gerard Pique
About
Alex
Barcelona
Father
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I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
Zinedine Zidane
Am
Been
Come
Forget
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I've been playing very well for a number of years.
Gerard Pique
Been
Number
Playing
Very
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Every year, Messi seems to reach his limit, but he always ends up exceeding that. He is the best.
Gerard Pique
Always
Best
Ends
Every
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I am very proud of my three years there, of having decided to go to Manchester first - at 17, it was the perfect time for me to leave home because it helped make me as a person.
Gerard Pique
Am
Because
Decided
First
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I have had it all over the years, being told I'm not good enough. So whenever the chance comes I always try and prove I should be starting.
Alex Iwobi
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Chance
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I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
Gloria Steinem
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Life
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Colonial
Everything
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Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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Dearest
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I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?
Ben Carson
Because
Comet
Coming
Complex
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
Gary Zukav
Authentic
Calendar
Come
Creating
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It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
Condoleezza Rice
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Been
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I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.
Condoleezza Rice
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American
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Been
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History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.
Terence McKenna
Across
Appeared
Back
Darkness
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell
Always
Believed
Everyone
Gotten
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My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.
Condoleezza Rice
Actually
Always
Child
Could
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Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
Ben Carson
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Extremely
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Faith
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
Bobby Jindal
Family
Following
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
Richard Branson
Airline
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Else
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Richard Branson
Certainly
Dyslexic
Failed
Grasp
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On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.
Thomas Merton
Borders
Came
Day
Down
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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Tony Robbins
Accomplish
Achieve
Decade
How
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
American
Bits
Books
Broadcast
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
Ted Turner
Away
Gave
Had
Half
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
Ted Turner
Entertainment
News
See
Serious
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
Ted Turner
Business
CNN
Grew
Half
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.
Charles Bukowski
Artist
Continually
Liar
Life
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
Christmas
Heart
Honor
Keep
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I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
Richard Branson
Before
End
Financial
Financial Resources
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I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.
Charles R. Swindoll
Delights
Interest
Love
Returning
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
Ralph Nader
Almost
Been
Bull
Cow
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
Ralph Nader
After
Cycle
Deep
Democracy
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