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"Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me."
"There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened."
"You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four."
"Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four."
"There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher."
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"There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four."
"Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them. The other is that humans are very good at not seeing things they know aren't there. And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen... Wings."
"I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show."
"There are only four things you can do on skis. Turn right, turn left, go straight, or sell them."
"There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge."
"Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"
"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."
"Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time."
"Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive."
"There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway."
"Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap."
"Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest."
"The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself."
"Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still."
"I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine."
"We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time."
"For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes."
"I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year."
"Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word."
"Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him."
