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  • Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • George Orwell Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Samuel Johnson At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Salvador Dali At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Baltasar Gracián At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Clarence Darrow At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Muriel Spark Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Golda Meir Being seventy is not a sin.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Candice Bergen But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Billy Boyd But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Anna Jameson Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Caity Lotz Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ralph Nader For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
    Ralph Nader
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Betty Shabazz Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.
    Betty Shabazz
    American educator and civil rights advocate (1934 - 1997)
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  • Bill Hicks How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again?...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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