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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
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The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all equally unnatural, and should not be admitted into our company.
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The turning point was the Tea Act and the resulting Tea Party in Boston in December 1773.
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 118 -
The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
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The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
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