Quotes with ninety-minute

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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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  • David Letterman There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.
    David Letterman
    American television host, comedian, writer, and producer (1947 - )
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  • P. T. Barnum There's a sucker born every minute.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle Those minute critics who seem to think that when they detect the occasional errors of a great man, they in some degree reduce him to their own level.
    History of civilization II, 314
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • David Copperfield Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Buenaventura Durruti We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Carl Sagan We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 57 min 0 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Albert Einstein When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • John F. Kennedy When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Gloria Steinem Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bill Rancic Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Richard Bach Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • William Shakespeare A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aga Khan III Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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