Quotes with forty-nine

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  • Margaret Thatcher If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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 Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carol P. Christ In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Jane Austen In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • George Bancroft In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Stephen Leacock It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Barney Ross It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Horace Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Brent Sexton My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Bob Balaban My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Bitsie Tulloch My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.
    Bitsie Tulloch
    American actress
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  • B. B. King My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Adele My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge 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
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Adolf Galland Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Carolyn Maloney Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Anatole France Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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