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Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. — Alice Sebold

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going. — Mike Lowell

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. — George MacDonald

In seventy years, I've never told a blessed soul. — Sara Gruen

Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured — Charles Dickens

Getting something done is like digging a well. You can dig a well seventy feet deep, but if you don't hit water it's just an abandoned well. — Mencius

Being seventy is not a sin. — Golda Meir

The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society. — Peter Drucker

This is death. I don't want it to tarry awhile so I can write a monograph. I want it to go away for seventy or eighty years. — Don DeLillo

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star. — Olga Korbut

Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless. — Bob Hope

The difficulty is partly that I am hesitant to go seventy-two and partly that the minivan itself is hesitant to go seventy-two — John Green

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time. — Richard Siken

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit. — Sandra Lee

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. — Helen Hayes

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar? — Michael Caine

She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life. — Jonathan Franzen

My annual goal is to read seventy-five books, which may sound like a lot. — Tony Reinke

At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all. — Helen McCloy

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. — Maurice Chevalier

What can I say at seventy-five? Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me. — Agatha Christie

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy. — John Clellon Holmes

I do not know the needs of a god or of another world ... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one. — Helen H. Gardener

Seventy-five percent of women think they are too fat, despite being in what is considered to be a healthy weight range. — Rachel Oakes-Ash

I died last night. Seventy years too young. — Colin Thompson

In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust. — Rush Limbaugh

To seventy excuses for him. If you cannot find any, convince yourselves that it is an excuse you do not know.13 — Tariq Ramadan

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again! — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch? — Richard Strauss

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. — George MacDonald

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen. — Maude Royden

I was born I came into this world with empty fists. After seventy years I am going away from this world with empty fists. — Mangalam Shiva

The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay increased from seventy in 1990 to three hundred in 2005. — Erik Brynjolfsson

We're being followed, I said, not bothering to whisper it. They were at least seventy feet behind us, — Patrick Rothfuss

Was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, — Charles Dickens

Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation. — George Habash

When you're seventy-five, you are still going to be you. — Linda Gray

You ever notice that like seventy-five percent of the dudes in America look like the bad guy in The Karate Kid?" I say. "Don't — Matthew Norman

This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back. — Langston Hughes

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right. — Confucius

I had a vision of what it would look like if like seventy people at the same time went nuts and sprayed water everywhere. — Beau Bokan

Where there is a setting sun, there is also a rising one. Seventy-two — Renee Ahdieh

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived. — Martin Luther King Jr.

In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent. — Morihei Ueshiba

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. — Larry Niven

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't. — Rodney Dangerfield

Settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual — Charles Dickens

Ladies and gentlemen ... "
His voice is quiet, but mine rings through the room.
"Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin! — Suzanne Collins

A man who drives a two-thousand-pound car at one hundred seventy miles per hour does not get flustered by the honking of the geese. — Garth Stein

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent. — Lee Strasberg

, Seventy-five percent of the world is water. Can you swim? — Anonymous

You know, sex at seventy-six is getting very dangerous for my health ... since I live at seventy-nine! — Kensington Gore

Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note! — Bob Monkhouse

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often. — Johannes Tauler

He'd gone from sixteen to seventy-five in a matter of seconds, but the old-man smell happened instantly, like boom. Congratulations! You stink! — Rick Riordan

Why, I've just this instant found out ... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days. — Jules Verne

Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out. — Harold Robbins

In seventy years, Russia's Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists. — Roger Lowenstein

Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then. — Ellen Hopkins

I once heard someone say, I shall die very young. How young? I don't know. Maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young. — Diana Vreeland

She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die. — Gabrielle Zevin

Why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use. — Winifred Holtby

She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is ... seventy-three! — Steven Levenkron

You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all. — Rodney Dangerfield

It was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work. — Peter Straub

Youth is feeling seventy years old, misanthropic, and ready to die at fifteen — Nikolai Grozni

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. — Benjamin Franklin

Morrie," Koppel said, "that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?"
"You bet," Morrie whispered. — Mitch Albom

seventy fall short of the current target for vitamin D; older people fare even worse, — Walter C. Willett

Oh, to be seventy again! — Georges Clemenceau

A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight ... — Matthew Quick

Oh, man ... " Leo shook his head in amazement. "That's right. You've missed the last like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget - — Rick Riordan

Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30. — Laurell K. Hamilton

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one. — James Madison

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion. — Herbert Hoover

In 1961, at age seventy, standing just four feet ten inches tall and weighing ninety-eight pounds, Kline became Disneyland's first Tinker Bell. — Jim Korkis

It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart's desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven. — Thomas Hardy

Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League. — Erma Bombeck

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. — Ralph Nader

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries
seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest. — Ariel Gore

I want to be happy. Like, seventy to eighty percent of the time. I want to be actively, thoughtfully happy. — Rainbow Rowell

Easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure. — Anna Quindlen

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five. — Samuel Johnson

Sunset and sunrise are two splendid movies that you can watch for seventy or eight years every day! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Even at seventy-four, with a limp from a hip replacement, Margaret could still enter a room and fill it like perfume. — Sarah Addison Allen

Seventy-five percent of students visiting the Cowell Health Center at Stanford University describe themselves as "sexually active. — James C. Dobson

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and dying as on a battlefield. — Muriel Spark

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. — David Cassidy

Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries. — Dale Carnegie

One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer. — Elijah Muhammad

work and carried on until she was seventy-two. Grandad worked in a nearby mill — Beverley Callard

So why someone would kill themselves to be with seventy-two inexperienced women is beyond me. — Maz Jobrani

People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else. — The Statistical Probability Of Love At First Sight

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. — Italo Calvino

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened? — Ann Landers

If you are over seventy, and you don't have prostate cancer, chances are you're a woman. — Mark Scholz

The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of. — Matsuo Basho