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• Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'

  Adrian Rogers

  Believe, Slavery Today, Vines

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• Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows, the abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the climate and generated the pressure that goaded, prodded, drove, forced Lincoln into glory by associating him with a policy that he adamantly opposed for at least fifty-four of his fifty-six years of his life.

  Lerone Bennett, Jr.

  Years, Leader, Climate

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• Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came together in such a way that I was able to take what fragile defense I had and hold in place for seventy-six days. If I was able to give much it was only because I had some useful things from my life to give. I am a hotel manager...my job never changed, even in a sea of fire.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Jobs, Block, Sea

  Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If there's a national-team player, he has to do extra work. He has to do extra weeks, and he can't go on vacation even if he says: 'Well, but I'm supposed now to have six weeks off.' If he comes and says that, then I give him a hug and say: 'Have fun the six weeks, but don't come back here.'

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Fun, Team, Player

  "Jürgen Klinsmann's USA project is not designed to be a quick fix" by Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

  Duke Snider

  Morning, Team, Men

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

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• My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

  Duke Snider

  Salary, Dollars, Cadillacs

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• Sixth sense, six pack, six degrees of separation / My evil third eye blinks with no hesitation

  Ghostface Killah

  Eye, Evil, Six Packs

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• Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Cutting, Freedom And Happiness, Hundred

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• Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Brother, Blow, Humanity

  L'Ami du peuple newspaper, Volume 2, p. 1121,

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• I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

  Chaim Potok

  Writing, Half, Week

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• I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Fun, Animal, Editors

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• There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Years, Twenties, Six Year Olds

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• Dried oregano has thirty times the brain-healing antioxidant power of raw blueberries, forty-six times more than apples, and fifty-six times as much as strawberries, making it one of the most powerful brain cell protectors on the planet.

  Daniel Amen

  Powerful, Healing, Cells

  Daniel G. Amen (2012). “Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to look, feel and think younger every day”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one

  John Creasey

  Writing, Good Day, Doe

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• I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me, it's the perfect way to start the day.

  Steve Carell

  Sleep, Night, Smell

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• I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Years, Done

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Baby, Average, Six Months

  Ina May Gaskin (2009). “Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding: From the Nation's Leading Midwife”, p.109, Bantam

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• There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.

  Bob Proctor

  Use, Faculty, Courses

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• Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

  John Bevere

  Spiritual, Children, Years

  John Bevere (2010). “The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense”, p.59, Charisma Media

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• I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.

  Norman Granz

  Years, Four, Concerts

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• The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

  Andy Behrman

  Broken, Guilt, Mental Illness

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• Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the cause and effect of violent activity. It's not a Donald Duck situation where he get a brick in the back of the head and gets up and walks away in the next frame. Mine have violence which keeps Donald Duck in the hospital for six months and creates a trauma which he will remember for the rest of his life.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Ducks, Differences

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

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• Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.

  Wesley Morris

  Cheer, People, Bangs

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• There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

  Jim Rohn

  Differences, Half, Dozen

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• Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Dropping Out, Historic, Young

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