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• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  James Surowiecki

  Depressing, Book, Years

  "Class Action". www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2005.

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• I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Stars, Father, Expression

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

  Adora Svitak

  Voice, Age, World

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• People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!

  Alison Sweeney

  Love Yourself, Thinking, People

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• 37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.

  Daniel Tammet

  Sadness, Dark, Numbers

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• My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Kids, Eight

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

  Serj Tankian

  Rocks, Track, Stuff

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

  Twyla Tharp

  Father, Piano, Lines

  "A Conversation With Choreographer Twyla Thar". Interview with Daviv Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Novelists

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• When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

  Paul Theroux

  Book, Uganda, Phones

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• Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

  Edward Thorndike

  Education, Character, Mean

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• The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

  Gene Tierney

  Running, Hollywood, Structure

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

  Pete Townshend

  Thinking, Long, Rolling

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• I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Marine, Years

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• I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

  Richard Trumka

  Expression, Freedom Of Speech, President

  "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Prayer, Two, Miracle

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Life Lesson, Anger

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Thinking, Twenties

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• I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

  Liv Tyler

  Hard Work, Two, Trying

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• If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Winter, Years

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

  John Updike

  Education, Learning, Years

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.923, Random House

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• At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

  Peter Ustinov

  Birthday, Peace, War

  Romanoff and Juliet act 1 (1956)

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• I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Catholic, Considering

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.

  Ville Valo

  Fans, Dean, Packs

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• I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

  Jim Valvano

  Cancer, Years, People

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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