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"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples." »George Burns
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"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still" »J. Paul Getty
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"This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four." »Mark Twain
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"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not." »Albert Brooks
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"In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce." »Francesco Caracciolo, on alcohol
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"I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young." »Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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"The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"I have a problem about being nearly sixty I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one." »Elizabeth Janeway
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"Is it the Fourth?" »Thomas Jefferson
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"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is." »Ellen DeGeneres
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"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run." »Rudyard Kipling
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"I want that fourth carrier." »Chester William Nimitz
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"If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—you'll be a Man, my son!" »Rudyard Kipling
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"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." »James Albert Michener
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"With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs." »James Grover Thurber
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"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15." »Ronald Reagan
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"I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals." »Beatrice Lillie
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"That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple." »Jerry Coleman
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." »Gail
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." »Gail Godwin
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"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket." »Sylvia Plath
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"Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty." »Ellen Glasgow
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"News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day." »Gene Fowler
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"A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating." »Arnold Bennett
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"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods." »Epictetus
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"He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham." »Frederick Douglas
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"Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so." »Mark Twain
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"The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since." »Kareem Abdul-Jabar
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"I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs." »Albert Einstein
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