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"SixDegrees.org is about using the idea that we are all connected to accomplish something good. It is my hope that Six Degrees will soon be something more than a game or a gimmick. It will also be a force for good, by bringing a social conscience to social networking."
"When I have one week to solve a seemingly impossible problem, I spend six days defining the problem. Then, the solution becomes obvious."
"There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government."
"Shout out to all my niggas livin tax free. Nowadays it's six figures when they tax me."
"Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one."
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"When he straightened up again, there were six Harry Potters gasping and panting in front of him. Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow -- we're identical!"
"Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches."
"I don't know of a guitar player that has only one guitar. They're never happy with one. I'm never happy with just one of them. I woke up and ended up with six, even if you can only play one at a time!"
"He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway."
"One hundred and twenty Marines were detailed to officer a force of twenty-six hundred Haitians."
"Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds."
"Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end."
"As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting."
"If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted."
"You and I, we'll be together 'til the six is nine."
"I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old."
"I feel many problems that we are facing, are man-made problems, we have too much emphasis on this secondary thing, forgetting our foundation. At foundation, we are the same human being and we are sharing the same planet. Six billion human beings' future is my future and my future is never separate from the future of six billion human beings."
"I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years."
"A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead."
"I have seven scars from having moles removed. One was a melanoma, six were precancerous. Get your moles checked!"
"Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine."
"I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields."
"Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six."
"If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours."
"The vast majority of the American people agree with me and many others. You don't simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement. Republicans have had six years to come up with a replacement. They got nothing."
