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“Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.”

“I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.”

Heart Has Beens Age Three Fear Justice Deals Four Despair Summer Bird Garden Glad Enjoyed Consumption Pursued

Author:John Webster

“My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.”

Firsts Children Individual Growth Pay Family Four Cutting Taxes Rate Improvement Income Code Boards Junk Tax Cuts Fiddle Exemption

Author:Steve Forbes

“The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn't write a song.”

Writing Years Mind Long Stills Character Song Millions Four Minutes Years Ago Instruments I Realized Followers Outlets Tweet 140 Character

Author:John Mayer

“At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.”

Four Salvation Glad Afternoon Highways Tidings

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.

“With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.”

Way Mind Four Ultras Geologist Interdisciplinary

Author:John McPhee

“When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.”

Years Two Three Four Television Years Ago Seven Newspapers Stations Dozen Globes Boston

Author:Will McDonough

“I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.”

Firsts Interest Deals Four Painting Decided Painter

Author:John Dyer

“Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.”

Ifs World Years Mind Humans War Suffering Clear Four Imagine Civilization Cost International Realization War Of The Worlds Anarchy Abandoned Four Years Human Suffering

Author:Arthur Henderson

“Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months.”

Earth Numbers Four Months Capable Resources Cannabis Acres Hemp Biomass

Author:Jack Herer

“The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.”

Persons Understanding Leadership Emotion Four Areas Intelligent Identifying Intelligent Person

Author:John Mayer

“During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.”

“I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.”

Wanted Film Used Found Sleep Watches Four Horror Shining Including Terrified Horror Film

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.”

World Years War Suffering Humanity Forever Four War Of The Worlds Four Years Scourge

Author:Arthur Henderson

“It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.”

Said Earth Process Fire Greater Four Wind Trump Rain Cards Suits Everlasting Pointing Shuffling

Book:The Greater Trumps

Source: The Greater Trumps

“The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.”

Men Two Real Issues Five Four

Book:The Outsider

Source: The Outsider

“I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.”

People Knows Years Ideas Order Four Sacrifice Willing Four Years Heroism Uniforms Willpower

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.”

Years Humans Made Self Together Lasts Lying Born Four Generations Middle Creation Billions Ties Complexity Cosmos Thread Arcs Smack Trajectory Culmination Techno Bios

Author:Kevin Kelly

“Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.”

People Knows Four Teaching Students Praise Shame Criticize

Author:Luqman

“No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.”

Ifs Jobs Fighting Three Four Team Seasons Managers Teamwork Umpires

Author:Jim Evans

“Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to prescribe what you shall employ yourself about. I only propose the passing two or three hours of the twenty-four in private.”

Two Three Hours Morning Study Four Twenties Passing Passings Retirement Propose

Book:The Great Philosophers:Berkeley: Berkeley

Source: The Great Philosophers:Berkeley: Berkeley

“When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.”

Men Needs Government Justice Four Praying Fairs Treasure Weather Pillars

Author:Francis Bacon

“Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.”

Ifs Want Religion Peace Four Gods Will Our Family Over You Gift From God

Author:John Taylor

“People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.”

People Years Wells Looks Said Stories Guy Four Media Amount News Caught Plus Four Years This Guy Corrections News Media

Author:Jayson Blair

“I don't leave my neighborhood. I don't go anywhere. There are four blocks I live in and there are two coffee shops, one at each end of the block... so I don't do much driving... Some people would say they never see me because I don't go anywhere. I stay in the blue state of Nashville, in my bubble.”

People Two Ends States Four Blue Coffee Driving Block Shops Neighborhood Bubbles Nashville Coffee Shop

Author:Ben Folds

“Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.”

Men Mean Two Bigs Bits Hours Rooms Four Regret Kings Travel Phones Eight Fifty Pet Pool Twelve Cents Trailers Brooms

Author:Roger Miller

“I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.”

“My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.”

Might Mother Stars Imagination Four Week Taste Dinner Resilience Cooks Vegetables Frozen Onions Garlic Spam

Author:Andre Dubus

“I work out four days a week in the off-season, and in the warm, running weather months, I do five days. A push/pull regime of weightlifting, cycling, and the occasional Saturday or Sunday run with my oldest son, even if it's cold out.”

Ifs Running Five Four Week Son Months Cold Seasons Work Out Warm Weather Sunday Regimes Saturday Occasional Cycling Weightlifting Off Season Offseason Oldest Son

Author:Andre Dubus

“Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.”

Years Religion Sun Four Mankind Temples Thank God Brethren

Author:Voltaire

“I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.”

Writing Book Reason Purpose Three Four Hundred Add Magnificent Estates Acres

Book:White Fang (Arcadia Classics)

Source: White Fang (Arcadia Classics)

“I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.”

Writing Years House Saws Four Wife My Wife Sand Cracks Four Years Fog Womb

Author:Andre Dubus

“The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I

“I stopped directing in 2001 for - oh, damn - four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.”

Years Long Five Four Masters Tvs Horror Directors Long Time Series Five Years Burned Tv Series Burned Out

Author:John Carpenter

“Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.”

Should Fighting Four Fellows Great Power Serbia

Author:John Burns

“What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.”

Knows Kids Sex Differences Five Four Wife And Love Sex And Love

Author:James Caan

“As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.”

People Sound Hours Break Four Training Average Athlete Lunch Massage

Author:Michael Johnson

“The 76ers hold a special place in my heart and I am intrigued by the opportunity to return to Philadelphia, where I was part of a rebuilding program, joining the team the year after it went 9-73 and going to the NBA Finals just four years later.”

Years Heart Opportunity Four Team Special Return My Heart Program Finals Nba Four Years Joining Philadelphia Intrigued Rebuilding Special Places Nba Finals

Author:Doug Collins

“I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.”

Principles Four Materials Training Program Educational Lectures Academy Demonstration Format Drills Implementation Training Programs

Author:Jim Evans

“I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.”

People Years States Given Four Proud Grateful Four Years Governors Nevada

Author:Jim Gibbons

“I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.”

Years I Can Literature Four Four Years American Literature Postmodern Doctorates

Author:Kate Atkinson

“I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.”

Ifs Writing Mind Stories Behinds Novel Five Four Scene Competition Surprise Agents Awards Museums Chapters Ceremony Of My Mind Behind The Scenes Award Ceremonies

Author:Kate Atkinson

“Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.”

Years School Four Sweet Eating Medical Bread Four Years Potatoes Junk Junk Food Doughnut Medical School Internships Residency

Author:Robert Atkins

“I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door.”

Sometimes Hard Party Four Doors Drug Alcohol Drugs And Alcohol

Author:Joe Walsh

“You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.”

Long Three Hours Four

Author:Randy Jackson

“I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.”

Hours Four Week Healthy Boxes Diets

Author:Tony Parsons

“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.”

Causes Knowledge Four Materials Finals Establishment Efficient Formal True Knowledge

Book:The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

Source: The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

“You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four.”

People Thinking Knows Names Four Higher Meat

Author:Meat Loaf

“When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.”

Character Four Type Letters

Author:Michael Palmer

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