"No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them."
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"In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty."
"Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me."
"I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up."
"Very few positive experiences begin with being told to count back slowly from ten."
"So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now."
"If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately."
"The infant is ten and he stays."
"I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation."
"One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block"