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In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent around… — Archie Kalokerinos
In six pages, I can't even say "Hello. — James A. Michener
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in… — Michel de Montaigne
A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more. — Robert Frost
Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them… — Erma Bombeck
When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of… — Oscar Wilde
I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience. — Brian McKnight
We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of… — Robert Kennedy
A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He… — Thomas Carlyle
There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh. — Erica Jong
A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing… — Mark Zandi
A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes… — P.J. O'Rourke
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned… — Benjamin Franklin
I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them. — Pablo Picasso
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade… — Oliver Goldsmith
I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be… — Helen Fielding
The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of… — George Steiner
The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping… — Ted Allen
I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up. — Jim Gaffigan
The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy… — Karl Lagerfeld

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