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• Tendrías que pasar por al menos cuatro abrazos diferentes para llegar de la cocina a la sala principal. ¡Esos parientes!'.

  Patricia Polacco

  Kitchen, Hug, Different

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• La democracia son cuatro lobos y un cordero votando sobre qué almorzar.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Arma, Almuerzo, Las Democracias Tienen

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• Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)

  James Frey

  Sleep, Three, Afternoon

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• Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

  Stephen King

  Sex, Children, Men

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.608, Hachette UK

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• Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.

  Sherman Alexie

  Together, World, Adults

  Sherman Alexie (2016). "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian", p.173, Random House.

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• La inteligencia es como la tracción a las cuatro ruedas. Sólo te permite quedarte atascado en lugares más remotos.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Intelligent, Wheels

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• The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

  Winston Churchill

  Eye, Games, Two

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• In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

  George Orwell

  Philosophy, Gun, Two

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.151, Arcturus Publishing

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• Ripred sighed. 'I suppose so. You and I seem to end up doing everything. Shall we say four members for each delegation?' 'Why not?' Luxa said. 'Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.' Ripred laughed. 'You know, I think you an I are going to get on famously.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Thinking, Needs

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• As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.' It took me only three seconds to wind through the hallways and pass through the fashion department, but I had already heard panicked cries of 'Emily said she's on her way in' and 'Miranda's coming!' and a particularly blood curdling cry of 'She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

  Lauren Weisberger

  Fashion, Fire, Blood

  Lauren Weisberger (2003). “The Devil Wears Prada”, p.99, Broadway Books

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• Rincewind podía pedir clemencia en diecinueve idiomas y limitarse a gritar en otros cuarenta y cuatro.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nineteen, Language, Scream

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• People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

  Terry Pratchett

  Names, People, Legs

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• Imagine sonreír después de recibir una bofetada. Luego piensa en hacerlo veinticuatro horas al día.

  Markus Zusak

  Triste, Dolor, Pensamiento

  Markus Zusak (2013). "La ladrona de libros: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition", p.211, RH Childrens Books

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• Cada día de San Valentín, el consejo estudiantil organizaba una fiesta para recaudar fondos vendiendo rosas que se entregaban en clase. Las rosas venían en cuatro colores: blanco, amarillo, rojo y rosa, y las sutilezas de su significado eran analizadas por la población femenina hasta la saciedad. Mimi siempre lo había entendido así: blanco para el amor, amarillo para la amistad, rojo para la pasión y rosa para un enamoramiento secreto.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Crush, San Valentín, Pasión

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• Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, War, Nice

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

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• Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen.

  Richelle Mead

  War, Cat, Names

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Storm Born”, p.43, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Mi palabra favorita de seis letras es siempre porque promete mucho. Mi palabra favorita de cinco letras es nunca porque insiste en contradecir la promesa. Mi palabra favorita de cuatro letras es una vez porque dice que sucedió entonces. Mi palabra favorita de tres letras es sí porque ahora estoy aprendiendo a decírselo a mi corazón. Mi palabra favorita de dos letras es si porque hace que todas las cosas sean posibles así: Si no siempre Si no nunca Entonces una vez. Si.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Two, Promise

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• My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, Ocean, Journey

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

  Alfred Bester

  Eight, Two, Three

  Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage

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• Meet me inside the Edge of the Icepack penguin enclosure in at four fifteen" she says, sounding just like Kim Possible. If Kim Possible ever asked people to meet her inside a penguin enclosures.

  Meg Cabot

  People, Fifteen, Kim

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• Estoy harto de la ignorancia que ha generado la falta de financiación, de los padres que se me acercan en las cenas con sus niñas de cuatro años agarradas a las perneras de sus pantalones y me dicen: "Sí, pero los estudios dicen que los niños pueden comprar drogas más fácilmente que alcohol". A lo que yo siempre respondo: "¿Supongo que eso significa que guardas heroína en tu licorera?

  Koren Zailckas

  Niña, Padre, Fiesta

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• Defiendo a ultranza la razón y me opongo a lo que me parece irracional, sea cual sea su origen. Si estás de mi parte en esto, debo advertirte que el ejército de la noche tiene la ventaja de ser abrumadoramente numeroso y, por su propia naturaleza, es inmune a la razón, de modo que es totalmente improbable que tú y yo podamos vencer. Siempre seguiremos siendo una minoría minúscula y probablemente sin esperanza, pero no nos cansemos nunca de exponer nuestro punto de vista y de luchar por lo correcto.

  Isaac Asimov

  Army, Fighting, Night

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• Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Roots, Desire, Devotion To God

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• The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy," she told herself complacently. "The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.

  Stephen King

  Eagles, Giving, Way

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.717, Anchor

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• There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

  Neal Stephenson

  Speed, Software, Delivery

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.2, Spectra

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