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Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.

Camille Paglia

Christian, Art, Epic

"Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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Every copywriter knows what it is to struggle with a copy for hours, for days - fixing it, polishing it, rearranging it. We have all been quilty of leaving the headline until the last and the spending half and hour on it - or perhaps only ten minutes.

John Caples

Struggle, Leaving, Half

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I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

Eddie Marsan

Drama, Party, School

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This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts.

Conan O'Brien

Children, Parks, Firsts

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When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Ray Bradbury

Writing, Years, Long

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I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

Raymond Chandler

Years, Common Sense, Fifty

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I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

Sidney Poitier

Running, Florida, Racism

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A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. I have a commitment to accessibility. I believe in plot. I want an English professor to understand the symbolism while at the same time I want the people I grew up with - who may not often read anything but the Sears catalog - to read my books.

Barbara Kingsolver

Believe, Book, Commitment

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President Obama met with ten House Democrats opposed to the health care bill. He did all he could to get their votes. He promised to campaign for them in their districts and when that didn't work, he threatened to campaign for them in their districts.

Argus Hamilton

House, President, Campaigns

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Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was a 78 rpm of "Hound Dog" backed by "Don't Be Cruel" and when I listened to those tunes I felt about ten feet tall and I grinned so hard that I felt like the corners of my mouth would meet in the back and the tip of my head would simply topple off. All I know about Rock and Roll is that it makes people feel good. Elvis Presley more than made me feel good, he enriched my life and made it better.

Stephen King

Dog, Feet, Rocks

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For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.

Peter Drucker

Technology, Benefits, New Technology

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Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe. So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word sinful is most commonly associated with chocolate.

David Brooks

Past, Evil, Smoking

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President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he's been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association.

Argus Hamilton

Military, War, Memorial

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Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

Ben Shapiro

Government, Long, Care

"SHAPIRO: Why Socialism Is on the Rise". www.truthrevolt.org. January 8, 2014.

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The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

Ronald Ross

Simple, Years, Ideas

Sir Ronald Ross (1910). “The Prevention of Malaria”

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We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line of history; it does not drift upon the winds of story, or float upon the shrouds of myth. We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.

Kent Nerburn

Years, Wind, Land

Kent Nerburn (1996). “A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land”

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They said these North Korean missiles had enough range to hit Seattle, but residents in Seattle were not worried. Today Bill Gates said Microsoft has enough missiles to destroy North Korea ten times over.

Jay Leno

Korea, Microsoft, Bills

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Technology is constantly improving our lives. Look at the cellular telephone. Just ten years ago, virtually nobody was able to get into a car crash caused by trying to steer and dial at the same time; today, people do this all the time.

Dave Barry

Technology, Years, People

Dave Barry (1994). “Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides”, Crown Pub

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I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'.

Ronald Reagan

Thinking, Sometimes, Court

Ronald Reagan (1975). “The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan”

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If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.

Francois Guizot

Should Have, Years, Has Beens

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I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much, this local conversation has come to an end. However, I believe that if the newspapers of the country pool their resources, we can send an Arnold-Schwartzenegger-style robot back in time to kill the inventor of the Internet, and then our future will be much brighter.

James Lileks

Country, Regret, Believe

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Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Years, People, Negative

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You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

Susan B. Anthony

Practice, Principles, Intolerance

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Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring.

Don DeLillo

Communication, Brain, Neurons

Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.210, Pan Macmillan

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As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.

Mark Burnett

Real, Adventure, Islands

Mark Burnett, Martin Dugard (2000). “Survivor: The Ultimate Game : the Official Companion Book to the CBS Television Show”, TV Books Incorporated

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