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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Elizabeth Jennings Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?
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  • David Lloyd George Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Babe Ruth Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bob Dylan Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Donald Trump promises to impose, soon after his inauguration, a new requirement on federal agencies: If they want to issue a new regulation, they have to rescind two regulations that are now on the books. The idea of 'one in, two out' has rhetorical appeal, but it's going to be extremely hard to pull off.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • George Orwell Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Alanis Morissette Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Carol Shea-Porter During my two terms serving the good people of New Hampshire's First District, I always worked for what I call the bottom 99% of Americans, and I never forgot that public office is a public trust.
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  • Beau Bridges Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Alfred de Musset Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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  • Ajay Devgan Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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