Quotes 701 till 720 of 1130.
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
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The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
Source: Speech, September 2004 -
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
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The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
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The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
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The more alike two products are, the more important their differences become.
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The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them - no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
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The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing - and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
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The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
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The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
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