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Letter "F" » fourth
«Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.»
«The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth /the power to love /although I have put it last, is the rarest.»
Author: Margot Asquith
| Keywords:
fourth, humbleness, interpretation, intrepid, rarest, servility, widest
«Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.»
«The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.»
«Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.»
«There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.»
«There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.»
Author: Buddha
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«July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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fourth, Fourth of July, inadequate, in stock, July, July 4, one-fourth, On This Day, PER, per year, proves, put together, stock
«Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acknowledged, blandly, branch, bulkier, bulky, diet, Federal, federally, fourth, mandate, mandated, mandates, newsman, newsmen, set in, tacitly, The Federal, worthwhile
«Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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April, Democrats, every day, fourth, Fourth of July, July, July 4, Republicans
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