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  • Nicolas Chamfort Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • George Bernard Shaw England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Victor Hugo England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Abdul Kalam English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Brent Scowcroft Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • W. H. Auden Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • George Gurdjieff Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Ali Smith Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Byron Nelson Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.
    Shape your swing the modern way (1976)
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  • Martin Luther Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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  • Iris Murdoch Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Paul Auster Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Black Hawk Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the Good Spirit will not hurt them. For my part I am of the opinion, that so far as we have reason, we have a right to use it in determining what is right or wrong, and we should always pursue that path which we believe to be righ
    The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
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  • Carl Sagan Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Siri Hustvedt Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
    Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting (2006) 12
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
    A preface to Paradise Lost
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bennett Miller Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.
    Bennett Miller
    American film director (1966 - )
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  • Louis XIV Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
    Louis XIV
    French king, also called Sun King (1638 - 1715)
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  • Aesop Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Bill Hader Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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