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Jo Brand Comedian, Writer
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"I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive."

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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him."

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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
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"Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it."

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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four."

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Elvis Presley Singer, Actor
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"Nine and nine makes fourteen, four and four makes nine. The clock is striking thirteen, I think I've lost my mind."

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic
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"It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it."

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Benjamin Graham Investor, Author
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"It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market."

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"I want more muscles! I go to the gym three or four times a week with a personal trainer. I can afford that now. I can't put on weight though, no matter how much I eat."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made."

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