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• Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.

  Susan Orlean

  Google, Historical, Important

  "Google It" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Book, Years, Six

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• We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Birthday, Mother, Numbers

  "Beyoncé unveils new album title: 4" by Dan Martin, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2011.

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• People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Worry, Personality

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• I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.

  Judy Blume

  Hate, People, Focus

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• The commemoration of Christ's saving Passion is at hand, and the new, great spiritual Passover, which is the reward for dispassion and the prelude of the world to come. Lazarus proclaims it in advance by coming back from the depths of Hades and rising from the dead on the fourth day just by voice and command of God, Who has power over life and death (cf. Jn. 11:1-45).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Passion

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in fighting bravely, carrying out orders, observing discipline, doing political work and fostering internal unity and solidarity.

  Mao Zedong

  Fighting, Army, Order

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state, where the corpuscular theory of light may be true, and where light does not always move in straight lines, but where we can never enter, and with which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside.

  William Crookes

  Moving, Science, Light

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• I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft to make her make sense. It took me awhile to learn that these three people were the core of this play, which seems so obvious now.

  Richard Greenberg

  Writing, Character, Play

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• How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Sight, Soul

  "Light but sound" by John Banville, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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• To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Air

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

  George Berkeley

  Mistake, Math, Understanding

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• What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air. Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools.

  James Joyce

  Fall, Light, Air

  James Joyce (1996). “James Joyce: The Poems in Verse and Prose”, Trafalgar Square

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• We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!

  Neal Cassady

  World, Body, Thirds

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• The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.

  Danica Patrick

  Mistake, Winning, Race

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kings, Freedom, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.50, David M Gross

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• ...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.

  Harry Browne

  Thinking, Fbi Agents, Rights

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• Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It is eternal. To be healthy in consciousness means: first, to be awake; second, to be harmonious; third, to be ecstatic; and fourth, to be compassionate.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Mean, Compassion

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• When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.

  Kanye West

  Drawing, Jordan, Mama

  "Zane Lowe. Kanye West. The Interview". Interview with Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, www.bbc.co.uk. September 23, 2013.

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• Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

  Billy Gibbons

  Guitar, Chords, Found

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• The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

  Laozi

  Nature, Expectations, Four

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• Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort of a waking dream where we can travel in space and time, where we can travel in mind. This became more than virtual reality, this became a real virtuality.

  Jason Silva

  Dream, Real, Space

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• If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Generations, Mormonism, World

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• What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Spiritual, Dog, Mean

  "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com. June 2014.

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• There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's sheer, unadulterated discomfort you're looking for, just stay on land.

  Michael Palin

  Land, Volunteer, Three

  "Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days". Documentary, 1989.

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