Quotes with five-eighth

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  • Groucho Marx A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brad Sherman Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Walter Cronkite I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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  • Damon Runyon I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
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  • Lord George Byron I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Anita Brookner She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Hervey Allen The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
    Hervey Allen
    American author (1889 - 1949)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Caroll Spinney When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Burning Spear When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Adrian Smith A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • George Moore A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Francis Picabia A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Salman Rushdie A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
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    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Curtis Carlson A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barry Sanders According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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