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Pele Professional Footballer
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"The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best."

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Ellen Malcolm Businesswoman
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"It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"

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"Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?"

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"Arnold Schwarzenegger is in some trouble. Today, the Los Angeles Times broke a story that quoted six women who claimed that Arnold Schwarzenegger sexually harassed them. When asked about it, President Clinton said 'six? That's not enough experience to be governor.'"

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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street."

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Alastair Campbell Political Consultant, Author
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"Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time trying to keep the Tony[Blair] - Gordon[Brown] thing together for the campaign. It was awful."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"My kids will be needing me a lot when they hit their teens. If I know anything about being a teenager. I need to be braced to be spending a lot of time with all six of them and making sure I can be there for when they go through everything."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion."

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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
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"Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being."

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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
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"They [people] start asking themselves "Well which one is the best? Which one would be good for me?" And all those questions are much easier to ask if you're choosing from six than when you're choosing from 24 and if you look at the marketplace today most often we have a lot more than 24 of things to choose from."

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