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«A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking and saying 'Long time no see'»
«Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.»
«Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.»
«Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.»
«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.»
«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»
«How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.»
«A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.»
«Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.»

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