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  • Boy George A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Will Rogers A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Beryl Bainbridge A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • Joyce Carey A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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  • Joyce Cary A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Will Rogers A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Cab Calloway A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • John Berger A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Charles Dickens A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Allen Tate A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Seneca A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Billy Sunday A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • John Locke A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Arthur Miller A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • William Hazlitt A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Loretta Lynn A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
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