Quotes with two-and-twenty

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  • Charles Lamb Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Alija Izetbegovic Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
    Alija Izetbegovic
    Bosnian politician
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  • George Santayana Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Benjamin Graham Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Unit
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Beah Richards Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
    Beah Richards
    American actress (1920 - 2000)
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  • Bill Dedman Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bill Gross Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Mark Twain Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Charles Simmons Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Andrei Sakharov Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • William Blake Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • J.R.R. Tolkien Both rings are round, and there the resemblance ceases.
    The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    English writer, philologist, poet, theologian and professor (1892 - 1973)
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  • Jesse Jackson Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • A.L. Rowse Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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  • Bai Ling Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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