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• To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.

  David Steel

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Should Have, Land

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• Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

  John Bayley

  War, Reading, Vermeer

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• The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.

  Benjamin McKenzie

  Law, Enforcement, Morality

  Source: collider.com

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• Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.

  Yoko Ono

  Phones, Phone Calls, Stories

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• I don't see why anyone should put me down for my job. I'm bright. I'm intelligent. I turn letters - so what? I also talk. I talk on the show! People know my name on the show.

  Vanna White

  Jobs, Intelligent, Names

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• You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.

  Paul Strisik

  Writing, Typewriters, Important

  Paul Strisik, Charles Movalli (1980). “The art of landscape painting”

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• A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."

  Brad Pitt

  Men, Next Day, Wife

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• A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than intellect . . . . We are men of God first, men of letters second, men of science third, and noted men fourth, men of rectitude rather than academic competence. . . . Our academic training must be as impeccable as our lives.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Teaching, Character, Men

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• Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.

  Bobby Fischer

  Girl, Stars, Writing

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, 1961.

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• Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.

  Stephen King

  Morning, Naps, Afternoon

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.

  Ed Seykota

  Writing, Traders, Trade

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• Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Fall, Men, Doors

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. If you think about it, even ten years ago or twenty years ago, there was a middle man, there was a publisher, there were studios, there was this world of rejection letters. Now, we're in a place where we have the technology and the ability to go shoot our own movies or to put stuff on YouTube or a blog, if you're a writer, or self-publish.

  Diablo Cody

  Men, Thinking, Technology

  "Diablo Cody Talks YOUNG ADULT, the EVIL DEAD Remake, SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Her Directorial Debut, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 16, 2011.

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• When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

  John Lennon

  Army, People, Warning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.

  Lenny Bruce

  Struggle, Shelter, Four

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling him he has been elected to a bishopric, if a churchman.

  Henri de Mondeville

  Enemy, Spirit, Patient

  Chirurgie

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• When we separate the word business into its component letters, B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, we find that U and I are both in it. In fact, if U and I were not in business, it would not be business. Furthermore, we discover that U comes before I in business and the I is silent-it is to be seen, not heard. Also, the U in business has the sound of I, which indicates it is an amalgamation of the interests of U and I. When they are properly amalgamated, business becomes harmonious, profitable, and pleasant.

  Zig Ziglar

  Sound, Facts, Silent

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.91, Revell

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• The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Sweet, Memorable, Writing

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• My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

  Paul McCartney

  Brother, Used, Found

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• Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

  Charley Pride

  Mother, Careers, Receiving

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Amazon, Records

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• I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.'

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, People, Albums

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• In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Numbers, Office, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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