Quotes with four-fifths

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  • Gore Vidal It makes no difference whom you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • H. Ross Perot It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
    A Study in Scarlet (1887)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Carine Roitfeld It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • William Feather Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Billy Boyd Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Asa Gray Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Andrew Wiles Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bobby Knight Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
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  • Brett Ratner Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Barry White Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Will Durant Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Orson Welles My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Bitsie Tulloch My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.
    Bitsie Tulloch
    American actress
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  • Bill Walton My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Billy Corgan My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Christopher Marlowe Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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