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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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  • Samuel Johnson Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William James Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lou Holtz Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Beau Bridges Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Aphra Behn Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Billy Wilder Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
    The New Hollywood : American Movies in the 70s (1975)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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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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  • Abraham Cowley Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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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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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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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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  • Mark Twain Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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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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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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