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  • Anna Jameson All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Bill Medley All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Epictetus All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909 - 1993)
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  • John F. Kennedy All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Kruger Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Abba Goold Woolson American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Carl Lewis An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Plutarch An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Augustine Birrell An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • Bob Schieffer And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bret Harte And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story — yet Could she think of a sweeter way?
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Beatrice Wood And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Barack Obama And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Rock And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Plato Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Nathanael Emmons Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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