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• Many years before, I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Country

  "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, 1948.

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• What you do during the offseason is, first, build a base. That takes about three weeks, and then you try to get as strong as you can before you go to spring training. Once you get there, you taper down and it's just a maintenance program for the next six or seven months.

  Josh Beckett

  Strong, Spring, Seven Months

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• The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s the Orthodox versus those who don’t think they can keep all six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Bible. It’s rich people versus poor people. At some point, something came over Israel so that everyone has his own ideas—and everyone else is an enemy. It’s a dialogue among deaf people and it is getting more and more serious.

  Reuven Rivlin

  Thinking, Israel, Talking

  "The One-state reality" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues . . . Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch.

  Ron Luciano

  League, Perfect, Knuckleballs

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• Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole book is a kind of chant. It is a playful addition to the Winterson oeuvre. Yet it is not a slight work so much as, homonymically, a work of sleight- - a word for which the Shorter OED gives six definitions, ranging from trickery to wisdom, all of which apply to The.PowerBook.

  Victoria Glendinning

  Book, Passion, Voice

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• I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that that part of my childhood is still embedded in me.

  Ishmael Beah

  Moon, Please Me, Childhood

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

  Chanakya

  Men, Eight, Two

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• Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.

  Earl Weaver

  Dollars, Three, Roles

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• No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one chum dead in the snow, dogs all eaten and six fingers about to drop off. And even then he would look around the empty tent to check, in case anybody thought it was girly.

  Allison Pearson

  Girly, Dog, Men

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• I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.

  Lawrence Wright

  Book, Writing, Feet

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• There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.

  Kevin Bales

  Israel, People, Live For Today

  Kevin Bales (1999). “Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

  Marcia Angell

  Eight, Drug, Negative

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• As the mother of six, Karen Santorum knows the power of stories to shape and mold the nature of our children. In Everyday Graces, Karen has complied a treasure chest of tales that helps us raise the next generation of children into adults of kind compassion. Everyday Graces is a must for families that desire their children to become people of character.

  Janet Parshall

  Mother, Children, Character

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• My favorite room in the house is the living room. We have two big couches, six recliners and over 20 pillows. It's a really comfortable place to hang out with my family.

  Cody Linley

  Two, House, Rooms

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• If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his sterling performance in the last six years.

  Orji Uzor Kalu

  Stress, Years, President

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• You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

  Bill Buford

  School, Cutting, Knives

  Bill Buford (2013). “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany”, p.67, Random House

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• Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved Me?....I bless Thee for deigning me worthy of this day and this hour that I may be among Thy martyrs and drink the cup of my Lord Jesus Christ.

  Polycarp

  Jesus, Kings, Years

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• I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. A bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Thinking, Smell

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• Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat.

  Mark Bittman

  Monday, Sacrifice, Cutting

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• You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Knives, Progress

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• When you ask for happiness and a beautiful life, ask not just for you, but for everyone. When you ask for something better, ask not just for you, but for everyone. By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone. Can you imagine what would happen if six billion people asked for these things for you?

  Rhonda Byrne

  Beautiful, Mean, People

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

  Woody Allen

  Fields, Genius, Comic

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• So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

  Emily Levine

  Motivation, Inspiration, Reading

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• Don't say you don't know! It's because of Kim. Meaning there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or next to one of my smarty friends, that would have got that amount of likes. So now you take this photo that has that amount of likes, and it has a flower wall from the same guy who does the Lanvin shows, and it has a couture Givenchy dress and Givenchy tuxedo in it. That's the point. Now the thing that is the most popular is also communicating the highest level of creativity. The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

  Kanye West

  Wall, Flower, Writing

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• Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

  Kanye West

  Party, Rome, Years

  "Kanye West’s Zane Lowe Interview Can Only Be Described As Amazing" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

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