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“Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.”

Years Firsts Kind Film Four Essentials Photography Cameras Instant Thirty Fifty Digital Four Years Layers Crystals Liquid Synthetic

Author:Edwin Land

“Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.”

World Sound Common Four Wonderful Adventure Wall Research Fellows Wide Common Sense Realms Venture Respectable Homely Four Walls

Book:Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Source: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

“Even God cannot make two times two not make four.”

Two Four

Author:Hugo Grotius

“I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.”

Film Next Hours Morning Four Television Creating Wake Up Gym Waking Grind Eighteen Hustle Sixteen Creating Music

Author:Will Smith

“I do my show half-hour a night four nights a week. I haven't seen my kids in 18 months, and I am losing calcium in my bones. Doctors say I should stop. I'm not going to.”

Should Shows Kids Night Hours Half Four Week Havens Months Losing Doctors Bones Half Hours Calcium

Author:Stephen Colbert

“That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.”

Film Fighting Sound Four Week Stupid Months Scene Six Spending Six Months Pms

Author:Tom Sturridge

“Initiating and going through a divorce with four kids can be a brutal experience, but also a tempering one. It gave me perspective and insight to be able to find the love of my life.”

Kids Able Four Perspective Insight Divorce Brutal Love Of My Life Going Through Divorce

Author:Tony Robbins

“When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.”

Thinking Feels Writing Firsts Looks Song Three Pieces Four Mountain Paper Pressure Climbs Blank Belts

Author:Martin Gore

“I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Three Natural Support Five Four Planets Huge Standards Resources Natural Resources Standards Of Living High Standards

Author:Jane Goodall

“In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.”

Knows Matter Facts Law Universe Energy Term Dark Four Percent And Love Physics Astonishing Stunning Laws Of Physics Dark Matter Dark Energy

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.”

Children Four Subjects Perspective Drawing Good Relationship Sketching

Author:Arman

“In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.”

Men Want Years Self Bigs Four Feet Discipline Mass Decided Twenties Cameras Photograph Studios Drawing Experiments Hated Rely Rays Self Discipline Sigh Invited Cambridge Slumps Polaroids

Author:William Wegman

“I’m feeling great. Well, pretty great, unless I’ve forgotten to take a couple of Tylenols in the past four or five hours, in which case I’ve begun to feel some jagged little pains shooting down my left forearm and into the base of the thumb.”

Feels Wells Littles Feelings Pain Past Left Hours Cases Five Four Couple Forgotten Shooting Thumbs Feeling Great Tylenol

Author:Roger Angell

“American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.”

Ifs Want Years Pay Attention Four Outcomes Voters Four Years Whining American Voters

Author:Jack Germond

“We live in Los Angeles, where you are expected to move every two to four years, so people can see how well your career is going.”

People Years Wells Two Moving Careers Four Expected Los Angeles Where You Are Four Years

Book:Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

“Ten years from now I think people are going to look back and say Willis Reed pulled a Curt Schilling...Willis Reed scored four points. Curt Schilling went seven innings against one of the best offenses of recent memory. No offense to Willis Reed.”

People Thinking Years Looks Memories Four Ten Seven Offense Reeds

Author:Theo Epstein

“Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.”

Years Past Three My Own Four Investing Noise Witness Experts Investors Personal Experiences Variables Years Past

Author:Martin J. Whitman

“Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.”

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.”

Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition

“There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot.”

Men Giving Long Work Four Weight Miserable Proportion Squares Sixteen Bearable Levers

Book:Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot

Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot

“I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.”

Thinking Years Three Decision Taken Four Design Rational Logical Four Years Gifted Analyzing Pros And Cons Rational Decisions

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.”

Thinking Years Three Next Doubt Four Fronts Tough Europe Difficulty No Doubt Four Years Preparing Tough Times Stagnation

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.”

Stills Known Four Land Findings Tradition Hills Dictatorship Messengers Meadows Ploughing

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.”

“The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of deference and compliance is the beginning of propriety; and the feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.Men have these Four Beginnings just as they have their four limbs. Having these Four Beginnings, but saying that they cannot develop them is to destroy themselves.”

Men Feelings Humanity Four Shame Righteousness Dislike Limbs Propriety Compliance Deference

Author:Mencius

“The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.”

Humans Sex Hours Human Beings Four Mystery Twenties Praise Reactions Puzzles Clerks Londoners Bushmen

Book:Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott

Source: Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott

“My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.”

White Four Stage Color My Favorite Teeth Brown Yellow Halloween Orange Candy Corn Rotting Color White Halloween Candy Candy Corn

Author:Jay Leno

“Folks, tomorrow America will get to hear those four words we've been waiting for: "Former president George Bush".”

America Waiting President Four Tomorrow Folks Former

Author:Jay Leno

“Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.”

“The four laws of learning are: the first is demonstration of what you want. The second is the criticism of the demonstration. The third is the imitation of the correct model, and the fourth is repetition, over and over until it becomes habit where is you don't think about it.”

Thinking Want Firsts Law Four Habit Models Criticism Thirds What You Want Fourth Imitation Repetition Demonstration

Author:John Wooden

“I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed the same team for 20 years or more. One was owner of the team, Connie Mack. Another was part owner of the team, John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. It's amazing. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired.”

Years Believe Hard Guy Four Team Baseball Managers Owners Predecessors Hard To Believe Dodgers Mack

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback.”

Years Happens Would Be Lasts President Saws Four Huge Administration Going Away Four Years Setback

Author:Candace Gingrich-Jones

“What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.”

Way Want Running Together Three Four Husband Pity Say Anything Troublesome Ribbons Puzzling

Book:Guesses at Truth

Source: Guesses at Truth

“There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.”

Four Legs Blanket

Author:Robertson Davies

“One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.”

Ifs Years Reason President Numbers Four Trouble Four Years Another Year Reason To Live

Author:Rex Stout

“After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.”

Ifs Giving Years Said Would Be Earth Order Asks President Four Advice Years Ago Terrorist Pursue President Obama Four Years Pakistan Naive Better Off Romney Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden

Author:John F. Kerry

“[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.”

Long Stills Space Four Manage Riddle Footnotes

Author:Will Cuppy

“[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.”

Way Years Long Two Seems President Four Information Produce Members Work Out Length Broads Four Years Ancestor Doomed Elders Whales Cabinets Breadth Acres Footnotes Whirlpools

Author:Will Cuppy

“The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.”

Men Moving Universe Force Focus Four Special Design Evolution Including Preserves Dimensions Degrade Biosphere

Author:Roger Wolcott Sperry

“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”

Country Would Be Three Difficult Cities Knowing Four Demand Meetings Prepared Tricks Extras Afternoon Senate Twelve Friday Council Realised Reactionaries Julius Lunchtime Friday Afternoon

Author:Ken Livingstone

“I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.”

I Can Four Paris Girlfriend Get Away Shopping Vacation

Author:Jessica Alba

“Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.”

Needs Moments Jobs Artist Company Records Four Alive Figures Development Cameras Phones Supreme Temptation Bridges Gaps Record Companies

Author:Laurieann Gibson

“The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.”

“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .”

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.”

Humans Numbers Race Four Speech Human Race Free Speech

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!”

Source: The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works

“Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.”

Together Cities Four Streets Fine Built London Britain Principal Finest Breadth

Author:Daniel Defoe

“A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.”

Doe Real Wanted Three Interesting Four Saint Martyr Doing Nothing

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindaban and the colloquy on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindaban created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanized Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.”

Humanity Christ Four Meditation Events Fields Worship Europe Crosses Exile Krishna Crucifixion Devotional Siege Great Events Crucifixion Of Christ Events In History

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.”

Ifs Together Strong Break Four Teaching Son Bed Weak Drawing Broke Score Divided Surviving Bundles Darts Death Bed

Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

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