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  • John Berger When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Brendon Urie When you have four people writing lyrics instead of one person, the lyrics are going to be a little more broad.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Bill Maris With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • C. S. Forester With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Carroll Quigley Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life....The first two years are important....of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Yogi Berra Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Henry Miller You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anne Dudley You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto You know, one, two, three, four, five years go by and then Marcos gets a little boring.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Arnold Bennett You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Billy Corgan You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Groucho Marx You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Busy Philipps Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Hitopadesa Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Ambrose Bierce Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and praiseworthy.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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