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Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope. Hal Lindsey
Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried. Robert A. Heinlein
of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse Charles Bukowski
John Mayer quote: "Young and full of running. . . tell me where is that taking..."
Young and full of running. . . tell me where is that taking me? Just a great figure eight, or a tiny infinite? John Mayer
Jane Austen quote: "Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive..."
Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing. Jane Austen
When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions. Orson Scott Card
I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is... Edward Gorey
You may say it is all in my head, and indeed sometimes it seems to me I am in a head and that these eight, no, six, these six planes that enclose me are of solid bone. But thence to conclude the head is mine, no, never. Samuel Beckett
Dorothy Dunnett quote: "A Scott, having got his bride pregnant, was apt to file her as..."
A Scott, having got his bride pregnant, was apt to file her as completed business for eight months at a time. Dorothy Dunnett
When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to biuld an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.Ford replied,''Produce it anyway. Henry Ford
The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school. Anthony Burgess
Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas hand with such tenacity, we can understand why: she had been training since childhood. Milan Kundera
Don't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.' 'But why do only unimportant things?' 'Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing. Norton Juster
Toni Morrison quote: "I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man..."
I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight. Toni Morrison
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher. And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' "~... Erich Segal

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