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• On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full.

  Delia Ephron

  Littles, Six, Spinach

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• Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  Harold Pinter

  Past, Years, Earth

  Harold Pinter (2013). “The Homecoming”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

  Jack Canfield

  Moving, Writing, San Francisco

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• The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Heart, Essence, Practice

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• I had a job interview at an insurance company once, and the lady said 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I said, 'Celebrating the fifth year anniversary of you asking me this question!'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.

  Paul Newman

  Salad Dressing, Who I Am, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

  Earl Nightingale

  Years, Growth, Experts

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• If you want to know where you'll be five years from now, listen to what you're saying about yourself today.

  Joel Osteen

  Years, Want, Today

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• Full fathom five thy father lies

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Lying, Nymphs

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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• Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

  John C. Malone

  Money, Dollars, Three

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• Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Unity, Principles

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• I despise 'animal welfare.' That's like saying, 'Let's beat the slaves three times a week instead of five times a week'.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Three, Slave

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• The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people. The manual for a Toyota Camry, which only seats five, is four times as long.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Long, People, Giving

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.213, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

  Farouk of Egypt

  Kings, Years, Cards

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• This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Play, Records

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• I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Kids, Age

  "Head master". www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2005.

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• I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

  Romano Prodi

  Years, President, Want

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• You know, on the road, I never miss a meal. I eat five, six, seven times a day, depending on when I wake up and when I got to sleep. I never miss a training day. I always get my four days out of my seven.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Missing You, Sleep, Training

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• A cozy home is not just a sixty-five thousand dollar house bought from Bank of America. A cozy home is a total consciousness of the two individuals within the framework of the home, and in relationship to the entire surrounding of this planet and beyond this planet. God lives in cozy homes.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Home

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• She's wearin' heels, boy, but she's five foot seven, you got five inches and at least a hundred pounds on her," Max replied and I figured he was being a might bit generous with the weight but I wasn't going to correct him, mostly because he wasn't done talking. "And, lastly, she's a woman. You don't ever strike a woman in anger.

  Kristen Ashley

  Boys, Talking, Feet

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• Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of further expansion of oil production.

  James R. Schlesinger

  Mean, Years, Oil

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• Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population

  Nicki Minaj

  Population, Bragging, Conversation

  Song: Muny, Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Heart, Doctors

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• Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Years, World, Success In Life

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• I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Cutting, Wind

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