Quotes with forty-nine

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  • Frank Moore Colby Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Henry Miller Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bob Hope She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Julie Burchill Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Agnes Smedley So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Buffalo Bill Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Sir William Osler Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Carlton Cuse That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
    Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) , p. 20
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Mark Twain The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bianca Lawson The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because when you're watching things on TV, you think it's like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it's like 'Oh my God.'
    Bianca Lawson
    American actress (1979 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Willie Shoemaker There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
    Willie Shoemaker
    American jockey (1931 - 2003)
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  • Allen Tate There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Bruce Lipton There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Gore Vidal Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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