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  • Adolf Galland We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Bobby Doerr We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Cab Calloway We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Nick Faldo We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Burnie Burns We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Bob Seger We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Johnston We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
    over Le Corbusier
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Carl Stokes What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • O. S. Hawkins What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.
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  • Stephen Leacock What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Mark Twain When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carl Lewis When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bonnie Bedelia When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Bill Condon When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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