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"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. ~ Sherlock Holmes"
"I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four."
"I love what I do. But I want to go home, just for four days, then I'll get back on the road again."
"Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after."
"You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist."
""I'll be your family now," he says."
"With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?"
"Please. They're like the Cult of Four."
"Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four’s landscape,” says Uriah. “Like he would let anyone do that,” she says, snorting. Something inside me gets warm and soft. He let me go through it."
"Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say."
"At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back."
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials."
"I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas."
"Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes."
"When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day."
"Even as I speak, in four hours time the Kyalami Grand Prix will roar away"
"you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet."
"Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it."
"Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?"
"You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing."
