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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ''fronts'' people assume before one another's eyes, and the ''front'' a writer puts on the face of reality.
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
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It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
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It takes two to speak truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
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It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
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It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.
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It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
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It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
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It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
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It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
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It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
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It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.
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