"A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe."
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"The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy," she told herself complacently. "The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs."
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"I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much."
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"Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston."
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"The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them."
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"Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream."
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"The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue."
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"Are you better off than you were four years ago? One of my favorite quotes Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores ... Is there more or less unemployment?"
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"I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!"
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"It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee."
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"At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet."
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"If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades."
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"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
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"Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day."
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"I remember us coming to Denver when Hank was coach and we were up by four touchdowns just before halftime when Hank decided to go for an onside kick."
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"If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference."
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"I run four times a week. And I don't count miles - I don't do that. I don't care about that. I care about how I feel, and I run according to how I feel."
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"You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years."
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"And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago."
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"When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday."
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