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“I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.”

World Years Ends Lasts Guy Five Movement Couple Harder Series Eight Nine Rely Throwing Last Year Location Ninety Eighty World Series Mph

Author:Andy Pettitte

“A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.”

People Hate Five Movement Six Towns

Author:George William Russell

“Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?”

Ifs Situation Five Doors Movement Hundred Unity Activism Lions Establishment Mice Overrated

Author:Florynce Kennedy

“To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.”

Stills Lasts Mistake Study Five Four Economic Streets Movement Wall Prove Nine Recessions Commentators Omen Understatement Downturn

Author:Paul Samuelson

“The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music.”

Ifs Can Do Simple Five Four Movement Drama Tasks Importance Practicals Narrative Sequence Theoretical Procedures Involving Retarded Power Of Music

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

“... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.”

Persons Moments Five Movement Mere Mobile Freeze Life Time Mortification

Author:August Sander

“European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet Union in that those missiles could reach the Soviet Union, make it vulnerable within five to six minutes, that it could surgical strikes, strikes into the military infrastructure and that a strike into the military infrastructure could cause in fact World War III, an atomic world war and that this could also be used for first strike, for surgical search, first strike into the Soviet Union.”