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• Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Attitude, Years

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• What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two chapters of the Bible are a virtual travelogue of our heavenly home. To visualize heaven accurately, study the Bible continually.

  David Jeremiah

  Book, Home, Thinking

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• I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.

  Colonel Sanders

  Years, Trying, Dollars

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• I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

  Bernard Berenson

  Spring, Flower, Eye

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• Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

  Samuel Ullman

  Adventure, Mean, Men

  "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

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• There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Writing, Crafts, Nine

  Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) "In the Neolithic Age"

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• I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.

  Annie Lennox

  Teenager, Grateful, Views

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

  Don Herold

  Teacher, Half, Dozen

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• I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Retirement, Morning, Thinking

  Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

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• The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.

  Christopher Moore

  Angel, Men, Years

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• I thought that I had found something new. But then I convinced myself that the Abbot Gregor Mendel in Brünn, had, during the sixties, not only obtained the same result through extensive experiments with peas, which lasted for many years, as did de Vries and I, but had also given exactly the same explanation, as far as that was possible in 1866.

  Carl Correns

  Years, Something New, Given

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• Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

  Herbert Hoover

  Depression, Gentleman, Too Late

  "False Hope: Famous Quotes During the Great Depression", www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

  Camille Paglia

  Army, College, Records

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• The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Race, Sixty Minutes, Perfect

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• Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

  Jay Leno

  War, Years, Political

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• It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Years, Two Year Olds, Long

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• Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of women’s rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did.

  Louis Menand

  Kings, Past, Opportunity

  "The Sex Amendment". www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2014.

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• In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs.

  Lewis Black

  Snow, Drug, Together

  "The White Album". Comedy album, 2000.

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• It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

  Joe Dante

  Political, Hard

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• The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.

  Charles Frazier

  Teenage, Wind, Two

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• There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.

  Creed Bratton

  Continuing On, People, Littles

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• I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin played banjo, guitar and mandolin. We played at root beer stands, like the .Drive-ins they have now, making $2.50 a night, and we had a cigar box for the kitty that we passed around, sometimes making fifty or sixty dollars a night. Of course we didn't get none of it, we kids.

  T-Bone Walker

  Mother, Cousin, Kids

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• Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?

  Joan Baez

  Song, Hero, Sgt Pepper

  Song: Sgt. Pepper's Band

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• From the three, you then use one to make eight ones. You add those ones to the three, and you get one-three base eight, or, in other words, In base ten you have eleven, and you take away seven. And seven from eleven is four. Now go back to the sixty-fours, you're left with two.

  Tom Lehrer

  Two, Eight, Add

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• There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.

  Sonny Rollins

  Creating Things, Long, Age

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