Six Quotes
2635 Six quotes by 2078 unique authors
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I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
— Joseph Priestley
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Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.
— Lena Dunham
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A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy,…
— Millard Drexler
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I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably wasn't the best place for…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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We are building a special capability at Schering-Plough to respond to these and other challenges with innovation, speed and flexibility. We aspire to continue being…
— Unknown Author
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The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I…
— Bruce Chatwin
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If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.
— Christopher McDougall
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Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would…
— Richard Hammond
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The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration…
— Jim Cooper
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Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in…
— Jim Cooper
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That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
— Robert Rodriguez
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In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going…
— Rebecca Lobo
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What you do during the offseason is, first, build a base. That takes about three weeks, and then you try to get as strong as…
— Josh Beckett
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One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction and…
— Martin Zweig
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Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it…
— Fritz Sauckel
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The extremists are talking too loudly, and everyone is convinced that only he is on the right side. It’s not just Jews against Arabs. It’s…
— Reuven Rivlin
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Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball…
— Ron Luciano
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Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole…
— Victoria Glendinning
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I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me…
— Ishmael Beah
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Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
— Chanakya
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Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You…
— Earl Weaver
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No man would ever use both hands to hold a cup of tea, unless he was one day's march from the South Pole, with one…
— Allison Pearson
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I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As…
— Lawrence Wright
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There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's…
— Kevin Bales
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