Quotes with four-fifths

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  • Anne Tyler At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Cate Campbell At the Olympics, you have almost nothing to lose, but at the Olympic trials, you have everything to lose. You have the last four years of your life to lose.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Elmore Leonard Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bill Irwin Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.
    Bill Irwin
    American actor, clown and comedian (1950 - )
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  • Bruce Schneier Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.
    Schneier, Bruce (2005)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • William Blake Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • André Maurois Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Billy Collins Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Cook Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
    Barbara Cook
    American actress and singer (1927 - 2017)
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  • Bill Dedman Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • T. Boone Pickens Far too many executives have become more concerned with the ''four P's'' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bill Bradley For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Ken Blanchard For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
    Ken Blanchard
    American writer
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  • Barack Obama For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • James Allen For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • William Zinsser Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • Dorothy Parker Four be the things I'd better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
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    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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