Quotes with fifty-four

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  • Voltaire Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ann Coulter Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Calvin Coolidge Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • George Orwell Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Mumy From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody Give me a man who says, ''This one thing I do,'' and not, ''These fifty things, I dabble in.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Cole Porter Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
    Cole Porter
    American composer and songwriter (1891 - 1964)
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  • Bill Buford Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Beth Riesgraf Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.
    Beth Riesgraf
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie He's five feet two and he's six feet four. He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen. He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
    The Universal Soldier (1963)
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Marilyn Monroe Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
    Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983)
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Abraham Lincoln How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alice James How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Bill Dedman Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ann Landers I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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