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take five
«The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.»
Author: Hanna Rion
| Keywords:
five, garden, gift, greatest, restoration, senses, take five, The Five, The Garden, The Greatest, The Restoration
«Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.»
Author: Billy Graham
| Keywords:
checkbook, checkbooks, five, give, minutes, take five, Tell, their, where
«Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
die, five, nineties, ninety-five, ninety, percent, rather, take five, The People, three, Two and Three
«I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
five, general, General A, General of the, General The, hard, has been replaced, horse, minutes, replace, replaces, take five
«If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.»
«And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites; / Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:) / And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
apiece, Children of Israel, firstborn, odd number, poll, shekel, take five, thirteen, threescore
«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
after, bad, badness, Better Late Than Never, current, five, gives, give it a try, giving, Good Living, hour, idea, Know how, later, lie, little, lived, means, minutes, not late, obvious, resist, sense, sheltered, sheltering, shelters, sillier, silliest, silly, simply, strong, take five, temptation, The Temptations, This Is, try, very, why
«He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever»
«Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding that limit»
«Of the five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way?»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
current, does, five, flow, flowed, flows, flow out, foremost, For the, four, fours, How does, on all fours, other, principles, take five, The Five, the Other, The Under, under, values, vital, vital principle
