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“The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.”

“If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as quaint to us as a bottle of sarsaparilla tonic. Instead, we'll take our genotype ID bracely to the local genopharmacologist to order some bespoke pharmaceuticals. Or we may rise at four A.M. to meditate on the part of our nature that is painful and feel better for it. Along with social insurance, we'll carry geno-cards that list our predispositions: photosensitivity, osteoporosis, and poor response to codeine.”

Ifs Feels Years May Seems Pain Order Social Poor Four Response Painful Lists Locals Cards Therapy Fifty Injury Bottles Feel Better Genetics Tablets Generic Quaint Osteoporosis Tylenol Codeine

Author:Marni Jackson

“Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.”

Years Seems Faces Loses Half Five Four Bears Average Stranger Customers Loyalty Corporations Experts Five Years Employee Statistics Investors Transactions Business Relationship

Author:Fred Reichheld

“...a college education feeds an adolescent in one end and gets a young adult out the other. In the process of those four years that person has changed significantly, and you and I have been agents of that change.....what happens, in the course of what we do, is soul making.”

Years Persons Has Beens Soul Ends Happens Young Courses Process Four Teaching Changed College Adults Young Adult Agents Four Years College Education

Author:Leroy S Rouner

“Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.”

“Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.”

Thinking Three Easy Views Brain Four Evolution Point Of View Mathematical Dimensions

Author:Stephen Hawking

“I don't know if there's a proper way to define toughness in a runner, but I do know that there comes a sudden moment when the mindset shifts. The impossible becomes doable, or at least attemptable. The long run goes from two miles to four to ten to fifteen, until it becomes routine at some point deep in an intense training cycle to knock off a couple hours without giving it a thought.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Long Two Moments Running Hours Four Impossible Couple Ten Training Mindset Miles Intense Cycles Routine Long Runs Fifteen Runners Toughness Intense Training

Author:Martin Dugard

“Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.”

Home Running Reading Four Minutes Activity Equal Sticks Endure Delight Miles Thrilling Hearted Slam Home Run Stout Keenness Slam Dunk

Author:Irving Stone

“I will not go a day without coconut oil. I personally take four tablespoons per day, either on my salads, in my cooking or in my cups of green tea.”

Four Green Cooking Oil Cups Tea Salad Coconuts Green Tea

Author:Miranda Kerr

“You don't actually find a strong correlation between- top-line GDP growth and making money in the market. It- it seems like you should. The fastest-growing countries should give you the highest return. They simply don't. But, there's only four of us- that- that believe that story. Everyone else in the world believes that if you grow fast like China, you'll outperform in the stock market.”

Ifs World Giving Should Believe Country Stories Seems Strong Grows Growth Lines Four Growing Like You Return Highest China Making Money Correlation Gdp

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones.”

Four Shoes Pairs Pair Of Shoes

Author:Cary Grant

“I ... received a few hugs and dutiful pecks on the cheek at bedtime, even a couple of 'thank-yous' thrown in for good measure. But I'd truly love for someone to explain why the father of my children can simply walk into the house, put down his briefcase, grunt 'Hi kids - howyadoing,' and all four offspring nearly hyperventilate trying to be the first to get close to him. They are crazy about this man, and all he has to do is walk into a room and breathe.”

Men Trying Firsts Children Kids Father House Walks Rooms Four Crazy Couple Breathe My Children Thrown Cheeks Hug Offspring Bedtime Grunt Briefcases

Author:Becky Freeman

“Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African American kids are unemployed. It is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.”

“... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.”

People Feels Reading Four Havens Dirty Los Angeles

Book:Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media

Source: Scribble Scribble Notes on the Media

“I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.”

Want Needs Years May Problem Jobs Form Education Class Four Middle Century Fashion Broken Higher Skills Degrees Middle Class Four Years 21st Century Education System Higher Education

Author:Marco Rubio

“Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.”

Children Animal Four Dog Bed My Children

Author:Salma Hayek

“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!”

Looks Three Voice Behinds Darkness Four Doors Feet Hero Adults Treats Tricks Tall Seconds Imaginary Halloween Barbarians Conan Trick Or Treat

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four operations in a direct manner, without the aid of any of the other three.”

Three Four Equal Direct Add Aids Contrary Operations Divides Engines Facility

Author:Ada Lovelace

“Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.”

Men Play Church Five Four Harmony Lifetime Boxes Organs Jingles

Author:Austin O'Malley

“For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.”

Knows Jobs Perfect Five Four Months Six Six Months Scenarios

Author:Salma Hayek

“There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.”

Love Two Four Letters And Love Wings

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It is often said that we are just a moment in time! In that case, here is the best challenge for man: To change this! To be two moments in time; three moments in time; four moments in time; to be in the whole of the time!”

Men Said Two Whole Moments Three Change Challenges Cases Four Moments In Time

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.”

Life Two Real Four Singing Real Life Plus

Author:Celine Dion

“The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.”

“Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.”

Two Four Photograph Dimensions

Author:Tino Sehgal

“if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.”

Ifs Kids Four Groups Claims Faults Terror Soccer Gaza Wednesday Hamas Playing Soccer Kids Playing

Author:Naftali Bennett

“If you can’t lead and you can’t deliver, then your own personal political philosophy is pretty much irrelevant, there have been far too many occasions over the last four years where the House has been ineffective.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Philosophy Lasts Political House Four Occasions Four Years Irrelevant Political Philosophy

Author:Rich Nugent

“I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.”

Knows I Can Home Remember Hours Half Morning Study Four Praying Clubs Chess Coming Home

Author:Bobby Fischer

“People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.”

“He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he could write anything. Often the question threw itself at him when he was least expecting it. You have four hours every morning, the statement would rise like a menacing wraith. You have time to write many thousands of words. Why don't you? And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.”

Ifs Men Writing Mind Wells Reason Lost Hours Answers Morning Four Endless Statements Expecting Every Morning Drowning Straws Wraith Least Expecting

Author:Richard Matheson

“For the Staffel: attack on principle in groups of four or six. When the fight breaks up into a series of single combats, take care that several do not go for one opponent.”

Care Fighting Principles Break Four Groups Six Series Take Care Opponents Aviation Combat

Author:Oswald Boelcke

“I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.”

Different Faces Games Numbers Four Eight Decades Championship National Championships

Author:Pat Summitt

“My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.”

Firsts Shows Four Doors Car Tvs Tv Shows Grey Slate Great Day Bmw

Author:Rebecca Mader

“When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.”

Years Wanted Four Minutes My Family Four Years Animator Blown Away Fantasia

Author:David Bolinsky

“I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch.”

Thinking Four Magic Kissing Members Originals Chemistry Guitarist Aces

Author:Vinnie Vincent

“I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.”

Four Week Streets Six Clothes East Village Riding Cop Vests East Village

Author:Jason Wiles

“The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.”

Mind Made Two Facts Choices Process Accepting Four Highest Dedication Grasping

Author:John Galt

“I try to go to the gym three to four times a week and mix it up with yoga or a personal trainer.”

Trying Three Four Week Yoga Gym Trainers

Author:Nicole Trunfio

“[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.”

Ifs Thinking Years Democracy Four One Day Election Democrat Four Years Rest Of Your Life Hamas

Author:Shimon Peres

“I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.”

Years Kind Whole Four Wonderful College Habit Whole Life Four Years Harvard College Education

Author:John Lithgow

“A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.”

Mean Jobs Growth Four Taxes Percent Aspect Strategy Code Killers Regulation Wages Obamacare Convoluted

Author:Jeb Bush

“It doesn't take courage to drink too much and be wild or jump around. That doesn't take any kind of boldness, just riding a motorcycle or whatever the idea of being tough is. Tough is having four kids. Tough is committing to life and being disciplined.”

Kind Ideas Kids Too Much Four Drink Tough Riding Boldness Motorcycle

Author:Angelina Jolie

“It has to do with the incredibly dangerous place that this world is gonna be as a result of a deal in which we got nothing. We didn't even get four hostages out. We got nothing, and Iran gets everything they want.”

World Want Results Deals Four Dangerous This World Iran Hostage Dangerous Places

Author:Mike Huckabee

“There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.”

Years Party Four Shadow Ministers Presidential Opposition Cycles Prime Four Years Prime Minister American Politics Entrepreneurial Cabinets Parliamentary Opposition Parties

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“I'm a Jew. Thirty-three is when Christ died. So though I'm a Jew, in the back of my mind I still think that I gotta get it done before I'm thirty-four because well, I don't know why. He got it done before He was thirty-four.”

Thinking Knows Mind Wells Stills Done Three Christ Four Died Jew Thirty Of My Mind Get It Done

Author:Jack Black

“With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.”

Book Film Four Pages Paragraph

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored. She said, "Then write something. Then you can read it." In fact, I had just learned to read, so this was a thrilling kind of moment. The idea that I could write something - and then read it!”

Writing Kind Said Ideas Moments Facts Bigs Mother Black Five Four Complaining Bored Thrilling Tablets

Author:Joan Didion

“I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.”

“I've learned how to respect myself and how to say no. I've learned who I can really trust. I have 200 or 300 friends, but I probably trust four.”

I Can Four I've Learned

Author:Miley Cyrus

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