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  • Booth Tarkington People used to say of the two Oliphant brothers that Harlan Oliphant looked as if he lived in the Oliphant's house, but Dan didn't.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Margaret Oliphant Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Mae West Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Todd Andrew Reid Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves...So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
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  • Charles Baudelaire Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Boris Pasternak Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
    LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • George Orwell Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Brock Lesnar Really, it was either fight in the UFC or fight in the WWE. There wasn't the option of both. That was a key factor. What am I going to do? I didn't want to juggle two careers anyway.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Nathaniel Branden Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair.
    Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.
    We've got one last chance to make it real, to trade in these wings on some wheels.
    Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks.
    Born To Run (1975) Thunder Road
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • George F. Will Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Ivan Illich School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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