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• Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.

  David Mitchell

  Life, Hurt, People

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• The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.

  Scott Adams

  Running, Loss, Long

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• Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

  John Adams

  Christian, Religion, Pages

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Art, Thinking

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity". www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2004.

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• Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

  John Piper

  Skills, Satisfaction, Burden

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• And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

  William Scranton

  Morning, Islands, Water

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• Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

  Allen Klein

  Humor, Years, Sometimes

  Allen Klein (1989). “The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff”, Tarcher

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• Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.

  St. George Tucker

  Son, Men, Land

  "A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia". Book by St. George Tucker, 1796.

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• A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

  William Petty

  Soul, Acres, Thousand

  Sir William Petty (1769). “Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland”, p.219

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• My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

  Andre Dubus

  Mom, Dad, Reading

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• This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another commandment free if we had accepted the first ten.

  Earl Wilson

  Biblical, Age, Way

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• For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

  Henry Miller

  Justice, Prison, Crime

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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• The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

  John Adams

  Code Of Ethics, Christianity, Founding Fathers Religion

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

  Dan O'Brien

  Events, Matter, Decathlon

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• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  Dan O'Brien

  Air, Trying, Events

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• If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

  Randy Jackson

  Song, Memorable, Years

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• So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

  Alvin Lee

  Years, Very Happy, Ifs

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• I would love to be better at cooking but I hate cleaning up afterwards. I love the process of putting everything together and the chance of getting it right or wrong but it takes ten minutes to eat it and then ages to clean.

  Mark Webber

  Hate, Cooking, Age

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• At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

  Ted Turner

  Three, Mergers, Percent

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• Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Tyrants, Luxury

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• One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.

  William Morris

  Real, War, Men

  William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.

  Craig Thompson

  Utah, Games, Answers

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• If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

  Robert Townsend

  Policy, Ten Commandments, Manuals

  Robert Townsend (1984). “Further Up the Organization”, Random House Incorporated

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• A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

  John Gay

  Men, Sheep, May

  John Gay (1854). “The Fables of John Gay Illustrated”, p.64

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• Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times, frequently of a hundred times more labour than the greater part of those who work; yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniencies of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.

  Adam Smith

  Order, Numbers, People

  "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, (Introduction and Plan of the Work, p. 2), 1776.

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