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"Republicans believe every day is the fourth of july, but Democrats believe every day is April 15." »Ronald Reagan
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"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a fourth of july rocket." »Sylvia Plath
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"What, to the American slave, is your fourth of july I answer A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham." »Frederick Douglas
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"Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one fourth of july per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so." »Mark Twain
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"The hall of fame ceremonies are on the 31st and 32nd of july." »Ralph Kiner
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""I know names. I know who's behind it. I know about the big group in Texas. But I could prove nothing. I'm snuffed, any way you look at it. So here is where my end begins."
Lee Harvey Oswald, july 29, 1963 New Orleans" »Judyth Vary Baker
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"Is it the Fourth?" »Thomas Jefferson
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"I want that fourth carrier." »Chester William Nimitz
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"October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are july, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February." »Mark Twain
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"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." »James Albert Michener
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"I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals." »Beatrice Lillie
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"That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple." »Jerry Coleman
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." »Gail
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." »Gail Godwin
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"News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day." »Gene Fowler
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"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods." »Epictetus
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"He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"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." »Kareem Abdul-Jabar
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"I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs." »Albert Einstein
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"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then 'skinned.'' I'm not sure what the fourth stage is." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq." »Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
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"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization." »Sylvia Levi
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"Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities." »Dee W. Hock
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