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In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.
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In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.
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In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.
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In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called conservative, as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
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In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
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In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
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Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.
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Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
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It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
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It is a dangerous thing to accept gifts: for two days after come request.
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It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
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It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
Cosmos (1980) 98
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