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• The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.

  William Ewart Napier

  Moving, Dollars, Chess

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• Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.

  Nichiren

  Wind, Honor, Suffering

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• They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.

  Horace Silver

  Music, Years, Play

  "My Conversation With Horace Silver". All About Jazz interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. December 18, 2003.

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• Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few marks are made in the world's history by eight-hour-day men.... Sir Joshua Reynolds had but one maxim for success: Work, work, work. Is not rigid and continuous training necessary for the making of strong athletes? Hard work is not fatal to real success. Vouloir c'est pouvoir.

  B. C. Forbes

  Strong, Real, Work

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• You're going to feel good. But no matter how much you rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I would rather see a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight or nine more years then come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You cannot mess with mother nature and father time. Nature will heal it if you give it time.

  Tommy John

  Motivational, Sports, Mother

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• Im just trying to be positive. I like the guys (Im) around. Even though were not at the record Id like to be, even after a loss, guys are mad, but then we have fun and you move on. They look up to me. Ive been around eight years. A lot of these guys were in junior high or high school when I came into the NBA. I see how much of an influence I am off the court. I try to be careful how I approach things on and off the court, because I know these guys are watching.

  Paul Pierce

  Fun, Moving, School

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• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  Sam Houston

  Father, School, Years

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• Leukemia is evidently psychosomatic in origin and at least eight cases of leukemia had been treated successfully by Dianetics after medicine had traditionally given up. The source of leukemia has been reported to be an engram containing the phrase 'It turns my blood to water.'

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Medicine, Blood, Water

  Journal of Scientology, Issue 15-G, 1953.

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• Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Player, Years

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• Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep.

  Robert Owen

  Sleep, Comfort, Shelter

  "Foundation Axioms" of the Society for Promoting National Regeneration, 1833.

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• It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Years, People, Television

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• When I was eight years old to be a spaceman was the most exciting thing I could imagine.

  Roberta Bondar

  Years, Imagine, Exciting

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• After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

  Andrew Jackson

  Regret, Government, Years

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• Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who cleaned up the food supply, pushed through the eight hour workday, and ended child labor. But liberals often forget that the progressives were imperialists, at home and abroad. They were the authors of Prohibition, the Palmer Raids, eugenics, loyalty oaths, and, in its modern incarnation, what many call “state capitalism.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Christian, Loyalty, Children

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• I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Twenties, Adults, Length

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• Now we the American working population
  Hate the fact that eight hours a day
  Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us
  And we may not hate our jobs
  But we hate jobs in general
  That don't have to do with fighting our own causes.
  We the American working population
  Hate the nine-to-five, day-in day-out
  When we'd rather be supporting ourselves
  By being paid to perfect the pastimes
  That we have harbored based solely on the fact
  That it makes us smile if it sounds dope.

  Aesop Rock

  Dream, Jobs, Hate

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• What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?

  Thomas Piketty

  Children, Innovation, Growth

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.8, Harvard University Press

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• In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid.

  Jay Smith

  Queens, Cells, Years

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• I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

  Pedro

  Girl, Age, Innocence

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• I got into politics when I was eight years old.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Years

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• I got into politics when I was eight years old. Six years now. And I got involved because I started listening to talk radio. It goes back to one event. The Democrats filibustered something in the Senate when I was eight years old. I don't remember what it was on and I didn't honestly care when I was eight years old. I cared about the history and the Senate rules.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Years, Listening, Events

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• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Brother, First Love

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

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• A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.

  Laozi

  Feet, Taoism, Hundred

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• With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes.

  Jimmy Armfield

  Games, Next, Minutes

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• As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

  Eberhard Weber

  Air, Years, Band

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