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  • Betty Shabazz Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.
    Betty Shabazz
    American educator and civil rights advocate (1934 - 1997)
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  • Bernie Sanders Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Understanding is a two-way street.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Buddha Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Anne Dudley Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Abbie Hoffman Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks.
    Steal This Book (1971) Free Education
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • David Copperfield Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Doug Larson Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Abraham Cowley Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Sir William Osler Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • John F. Kennedy Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
    Press conferentie, 21-04-1961 (na de Bay of Pigs)
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Burgess Owens W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Bill Gates We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bill Nelson We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • John B. S. Haldane We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Thomas J. Peters We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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