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• He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

  John Bunyan

  Poverty, Wealth, Poor

  John Bunyan (1787). “The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream: In three parts. Wherein are set forth the manner of his setting out; ... together with his happy arrival at the celestial city”, p.182

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• My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

  Julie Burchill

  Friday, Husband, Attitude

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• I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Smoking

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• I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

  Gary Busey

  Jobs, Men, Doctors

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• The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Eight, Sky

  Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.20, The Forlorn Press

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• Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Beach, Ocean, Dark

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.

  Herman Cain

  Cutting, Agency, Years

  "Herman Cain: Transcript of ABC/Yahoo News Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

  James Cameron

  Rivers, Cost Of Living, Magic Moments

  James Cameron (1968). “What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67”

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• There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, House, Acting

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• A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

  Jim Carrey

  Anniversary, Good Love, Years

  "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Interview: Jim Carrey". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. April 2004.

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• I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

  Dick Cheney

  Years, White, Judging

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• In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Writing, Want, Matter

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• Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Summer, Beer, Men

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• If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

  Winston Churchill

  Respect, Not Giving Up, Law

  "Churchill By Himself".

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• Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.

  Nick Clegg

  Years, Work Out, Perspective

  The Economist interview, www.economist.com. March 11, 2010.

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• An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Fall, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.

  George Clooney

  Fall, Hair, Years

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• The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Moral, Bases

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• I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

  Christopher Columbus

  League, East, West

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• I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

  Christopher Columbus

  Men, Glasses, Dozen

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.46

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• If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Teacher, Happy New Year

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• I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Years, Ego, Jerk

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• I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.

  Dane Cook

  Book, Years, Twelve

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• If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Happiness, Running, Positive Thinking

  "Coolidge: An American Enigma". Book by Robert Sobel, p. 242, 2000.

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• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Political, Politics, Nine

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