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Letter "E" » eight
«If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(
President)
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Keywords:
axes,
by the hour,
chop,
chopping,
chop down,
down,
downed,
Down in It,
Down Under,
Down With Me,
eight,
had,
hours,
sharpened,
sharpening,
six,
spend,
take down,
Tree
«If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.»
«I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.»
«I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.»
«I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask. I was not afraid to ask.»
«Isn't this amazing? Clinton is getting $8M for his memoir, Hillary got $8M for her memoir. That is $16M for two people who for eight years couldn't remember anything.»
«It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.»
«It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.»
Author: Dan Castellaneta
(
Actor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
eight,
fit,
fit in,
juggle,
juggled,
juggling,
managed,
pregnant,
somehow,
troubled
«I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
acquaintance,
appointment,
beech,
beech tree,
birch,
birches,
deepest,
eight,
frequently,
miles,
pined,
pines,
pine tree,
pining,
snow,
tramp,
tramped,
tramps,
yellow,
yellow birch
«I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.»