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"Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which."
"Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time."
"The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years."
"Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network."
"And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."
"Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours."
"Just another four-letter word."
"Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?"
"At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?"
"Concentrating for four hours will wear you out mentally."
"It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces"
"The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence."
"Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God."
"Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four."
"The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions."
"Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it."
"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one."
"Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight."
"Four years and everything was the same, except me."
"He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie."
