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“In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.”

Years Wells Ideas Enough Time Results Pay Five Greater Feet Source Involved Thousand Resources Years Ago Investment Deeper Surface Oil Operations More Time Texas Natural Resources

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.”

Years Humans Mean Made Science Five Food Goes On Industry Circumstances Increase Twenties Faster Five Years Twenty Five Ratios Subsistence

Author:Thomas Malthus

“I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.”

“You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.”

Years Long Different Ends Lasts Three Given Five Four Periods Exciting Different Experiences

Author:Morgan Freeman

“You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.”

Ifs Knows Years Actors Five Lovers Series Hated Five Years If I Could

Author:Julianna Margulies

“I am encyclopaedic on World War II. My dad took me to D-Day beaches when I was a kid. I was there four years ago - every five years they have a remembrance on D-Day beaches and I would have liked to have been there and done my bit.”

World Years Has Beens War Done Kids Bits Five Four Dad Years Ago My Dad Beach War Of The Worlds Five Years World War Ii Four Years World War I Remembrance D Day

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.”

Years Firsts Two Done Government Wanted Five Republican First Time Decided Majority Forty Transparent Things Done Good Years Government Shutdown Bad Years

Author:William J. Clinton

“Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.”

World Years Able Five University Five Years Lectures

Author:Bill Gates

“Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.”

Years Facts Bigs Past Form Five Products Kings Scary Fats Five Years Copies Software Manuals Documentation

Book:Dave Barry in Cyberspace

Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace

“I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.”

Ifs Years Today Joy Five Pure Husband Singing Horse Absolutes Bother Parks Five Years My Husband Riding Lungs Larry Joy And Happiness Five Year Olds Central Park Carousels Very Depressed

Author:Eda LeShan

“My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.”

Writing Years Firsts Made Book Three Five Lucky Husband Five Years Three Years Housewife

Author:Judith Perelman Rossner

“"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.”

Years Children Book Five Written Hundred Years Ago Forgotten God Love Thirty Paraphrase

Author:Macklemore

“The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.”

Years Has Beens States Facts Today Lasts Five Painting Painter Prize Turner Curator

Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.”

Years Life Is Five Plans One Thing Planning Five Years Curves Learning Curve Five Year Plans

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“Abbott Labs absolutely are on the mend. You were able to buy 15 percent growth over the last five, 10 and 20 years at 13 or 14 times earnings, ... It's a great opportunity. Buy on this dip. We think a year from now the chart's going to be a mirror image on the up side.”

Thinking Years Able Lasts Opportunity Sides Growth Five Percent Mirrors Earning Labs Great Opportunity Dip Mirror Image Earning It

Author:David L. Katz

“We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we have worked diligently alongside Radio One to build their business in the markets we have historically represented including Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia , Raleigh and Columbus. At a time of significant growth in the African American consumer market the addition of the remaining Radio One stations expands our ability to deliver strategic marketing solutions to our agency and advertiser customers.”

“I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party.”

Years Government Party Five Policy Criticism Critics Reform Five Years Pushing Odds Brokers Government Policy

Author:Jonathan Moyo

“About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.”

Years Running Courses Five Tree Fields Percent Ideals Years Ago Trials Five Years Nests Ratios Hawks Acres Timber Quails

Author:Rick Carlisle

“Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.”

Trying Years Five Weapons Nuclear Iran Nuclear Weapons Diplomacy

Author:Joseph Cirincione

“I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.”

Ifs Thinking Years Children Stills Clear Five Five Years

Author:Sam Taylor-Wood

“Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.”

Years Wells Lasts Five Generations Painting Hundred Twenties Immortality Thirty Tombstone

Author:Robert Genn

“I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.”

Ifs Years Made Said Play Able Five Havens Doctors Tennis Five Years They Said Very Happy Singles

Author:Walter Cronkite

“I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?”

People Ifs Should Years Enough Kids School Jobs Company Five Teaching Thousand Hundred Dollars Be Good Thirty Forty Good Enough

Author:Steve Jobs

“At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.”

Years Lasts Race History Five Hundred Instance African American American History

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.”

People Years Today Five Doors Years Ago Horse Five Years Riding Locked Coming Back

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.”

Thinking Years Five Seven Eight Five Years Magnitude

Author:Steve Jobs

“Over the weekend, of course, down there in Washington, D.C., they had the big White House Correspondents' Dinner. Do you know who was really funny? President Obama. So funny, in fact, he has already been promised 'The Tonight Show' in five years.”

Knows Years Facts Shows Bigs Courses House President White Five Dinner Five Years Tonight White House Do You Know President Obama Weekend

Author:David Letterman

“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.”

“I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.”

Want Years I Can Play Three Five Comfortable Baseball Guitar Divorce Strikes Five Years Going Through Divorce Three Strikes

Author:Buddy Guy

“To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.”

Years Firsts Spirit Religion Jesus Christianity Teach Five Holy Equal Inspired Holy Spirit Glorious Revelations Five Years Flash Inward Illumination Theological Seminary

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.”

Inspirational Years Stories Might Today Next Successful Five Months Tomorrow Five Years Next Year

Author:Jon Jones

“I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.”

People Trying Years Five Ten Years Ago Lifetime Committed Clock Score Better Now

Author:Jerry Garcia

“My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.”

Want Years Wanted Young Actors Five Mom Years Ago Theater My Mom Five Years Auditions

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school.”

Years Art School Five Five Years Art School Five Year Olds

Author:Iris Apfel

“Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.”

Years Littles Seems Artist Values Asks Money Effort Five Percent Responsible

Author:Joe Fafard

“Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.”

Years Art States Able Christ Perfect Healing Lord Five Influence Hundred India Ancient Efficient Physicians Surgery Abolish Present Day Ancient India Lord Buddha

Book:The Bach Flower Remedies

Source: The Bach Flower Remedies

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