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• If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.

  Bill Walton

  Team, School, Ucla

  "Seven of the Dirtiest Teams in College Basketball History" By Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.

  Nick Gordon

  Light, Long Ago, Miracle

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• I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

  Karen Allen

  Years, Smoking, Healthy

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• Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships.

  Harvey Keitel

  Beautiful, Betrayal, Needs

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• The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.

  Ansel Adams

  Keys, Play, Piano

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• I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.

  Adam Duritz

  Stupid, Kids, Years

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• Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

  John Mica

  Friday, Two, Tsa

  "TSA bogged down in bureaucracy" by John Mica, www.politico.com. June 28, 2010.

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• I think because I really didn't have a good strategy for my campaign. I didn't plan it the right way. ... As a candidate who was already so well known ... I don't think I ever said, 'Yes, you may have known me for eight years, but I don't take anything for granted. I have to earn your support.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Years, Support

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• Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

  Piers Anthony

  Writing, Years, Practice

  Interview with Dag R., www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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• I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

  Saul Bellow

  Strong, Sleep, Ideas

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• When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.

  Margery Allingham

  Lying, Writing, Years

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• I don’t watch a lot of other basketball away from the gym. But I do look at LeBron’s box score. I want to see how many points, rebounds and assists he had, and how he shot from the field. If he had 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, I can tell you exactly how he did it, what type of shots he made and who he passed to.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Fields, Watches

  "If You Care About Basketball, This Kevin Durant Quote About LeBron James Will Make You Giddy" by Tom Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. April 24, 2013.

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• What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Years, Land

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Christian, Kings

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Gleanings Among the Sheaves”, p.90

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• May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

  Alastair Campbell

  Christmas, Mother, Queens

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

  Jeff Dunham

  Christmas, Book, Teaching

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

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• I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

  Melanie Brown

  Christmas, West Indies, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ...They will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Daughter, Baby, Years

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• Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is that a child dies every eight seconds from drinking contaminated water, and the sanitation trend is getting sharply worse, mostly because of the worldwide drift of the rural peasantry to urban slums.

  Marq de Villiers

  Children, Drinking, Reality

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• With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

  Sharon Begley

  Player, Ipods, Track

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• Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In the Ark of Noah certain persons, numbering only eight, were saved by water, which Baptism effects in like manner for you" (1 Peter 3:20). He proves and demonstrates that the solitary Ark of Noah was the figure of the One Church. If, at the time of this Baptism of the world anyone could have been saved without having been in the Ark of Noah, then he who is outside the Church could now be brought to life by Baptism.

  Cyprian

  Water, Baptism, Church

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• Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

  James B. Donovan

  Jesus, Years, Religion

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• The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture a pool of graduates who are able to think deeply and broadly about these issues, and help develop novel solutions for Singapore, Asia and beyond. I am delighted at this programme for another reason - it is the first undergraduate course that draws on expertise from eight Faculties in NUS, making full use of the comprehensive strengths of our University.

  Tan Chorh Chuan

  Thinking, Issues, Environmental

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• From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

  Melissa George

  Brother, Dad, Years

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• As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.

  Cassandra Danz

  Garden, Interesting, Looks

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