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• From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.

  Richard Louv

  Beach, Children, Fishing

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.

  Ben Hecht

  Party, Greatness, Glowing

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• Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

  Ernest Dimnet

  America, Rooms, Six

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• No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eight, Two, Six

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Everything and Nothing”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Today, Strive, Minutes

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.55, Rodale

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• So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

  Bernhard Langer

  Complaining, Assistants, Normal

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• I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself.

  Joe Kinnear

  Wise, Player, Years

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• At another house two women learned very fast; I say women, but one was a girl about twelve or thirteen, already married, however. There was a little child about three years old. My sister asked, 'Who is the True God's Son?' The little thing replied, in a very sweet voice, 'Jesus.'

  Lottie Moon

  Girl, Sweet, Jesus

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.181, Mercer University Press

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• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

  Gary Ross

  Years, Hundred, Made

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• I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.

  Mary MacLane

  Genius

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

  Maurice Jarre

  Years, Interesting, Theatre

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• I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.

  Victor Cruz

  House, Six Packs, Doughnut

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• At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern.
  After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the clouds return. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes.
  By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Numbers, Clouds

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• Had it been published by a voice from heaven, that twelve poor men, taken out of boats and creeks, without any help of learning, should conquer the world to the cross, it might have been thought an illusion against all reason of men; yet we know it was undertaken and accomplished by them.

  Stephen Charnock

  Taken, Men, Voice

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.678, Ravenio Books

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• Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia: You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira: I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram.

  Mae West

  Brother, Real, Liars

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• More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't, 'yes you do,' no we don't! The final retort to that is: I have a doctorate in Catholic theology that I have earned the hard way - by sitting in university classrooms for twelve years. I know what we believe! You get a doctorate in Catholic theology? What do you know about it? Nothing! You don't know anything about it. You're saying things that are born of misunderstanding or ignorance.

  John Corapi

  Believe, Ignorance, Years

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• I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble.

  Kemmons Wilson

  Justice, Half, Care

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• Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.

  Noel Coward

  Dog, Sleep, Mad

  'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' (1931 song)

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• I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.

  William Hooper

  Lying, Years, Two

  William Hooper (1859). “Fifty Years Since: An Address, Delivered Before the Alumni of the University of North Carolina, on the 7th of June, 1859, (being the Day Before the Annual Commencement.)”, p.5

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• On the road, I eat hamburgers every day. The team tries to get me to eat differently, but no. Burgers, burgers, burgers. I like burgers. McDonald's burgers. Wendy's burgers. Burger King burgers. There's this one place in Canada - I even look at the schedule to find out when we play there - best burger I've ever tasted. Real soft and sweet. I ate twelve of them in one night.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Sweet, Kings, Team

  "The Pathology of Gilbert Arenas". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. January 6, 2010.

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• At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

  Allen Tate

  Honor, Twenties, Three

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.74, Macmillan

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

  John Taylor Gatto

  School, Years, Jail

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.29, New Society Publishers

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• Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.

  Dani Shapiro

  Beautiful, Jobs, Mean

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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