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• I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

  Arthur Laffer

  Fall, Thinking, Years

  "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2010.

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• I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Reading, Years, Literature

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• Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

  John Powell

  Poverty, Neighborhood

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• There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

  Hugh Prather

  Girl, Years, People

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, Conari Press

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• There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Military, Successful, Korea

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• I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

  Lee Konitz

  Sound, Want, Notes

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• One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Needs, May, Consciousness

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.

  Daryl Hall

  Years, Six, Belief

  Penthouse Magazine Interview, www.salon.com. March, 1987.

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• It was really starting to get pathetic, everyday they would come in looking for one thing or another. 'Zach, can you give me some acting tips?' 'Zach, will you let me blow you?' 'Can I have some cash?' That's when I made the call, that's when I decided seven was enough

  Zach Braff

  Blow, Giving, Everyday

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• They say the number on rule in showbusiness is not to work with animals. I guess I'm above the rules because I put up with that for seven years.

  Zach Braff

  Animal, Years, Numbers

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• I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

  Denis Johnson

  Malaria, Three, Stories

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• I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

  Joseph Epstein

  People, Training, Musical

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• I was always brutally teased for being George Harrison's son. That was from the age of about four or five, before I even knew who he was. And for seven years people would follow me about school singing 'Yellow Submarine.' I still can't listen to that song to this day.

  Dhani Harrison

  Song, School, Years

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• I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.

  Lance Armstrong

  Years, Said, I Can

  "Cycling legend Lance Armstrong accused of doping by former teammate". Interview with Anna Hipsley, www.abc.net.au. May 21, 2011.

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• The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Motivation, Inspiration, Sadness

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• I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Country, Two, Eight

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• In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Baseball, Loss, Different

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• I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

  Kato Kaelin

  Years, Acting, Trials

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• For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

  Mel Carnahan

  Sex, Past, Years

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• What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Women, Eight, Pigs

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• I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Children, Long Ago, Hiroshima

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• Your husband is lazy if the directions on his medicine say, "A teaspoon before going to bed," and in one day he uses seven bottles.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Husband, Medicine

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• I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

  Janet Echelman

  Art, School, College

  "Taking imagination seriously". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day or two. It's exciting for the fans. But you're on edge. And you're on edge the whole round.

  Ernie Els

  Night, Two, Leaving

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• My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.

  Vo Nguyen Giap

  Fighting, Pillars

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