"The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy."
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"Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different."
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"The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love."
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"The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning."
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"It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final."
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"I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five."
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"I can only stand to sit in front of my computer for three or four hours a day. Otherwise it can get really soul-sucking."
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"How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key."
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"To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four."
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"A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs.]"
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"Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!"
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"Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family."
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"Of course when you spend four hours in prosthetic makeup and you really are looking at yourself and you see how revolting you've become in a way, it obviously adds another strand and helps you... a little bit more."
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"The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things."
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"I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover"
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"The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape."
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"Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn."
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"Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started."
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"As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two."
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"However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it."
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