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The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
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The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
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The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.
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The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
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The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
The Closing Circle -
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
The Buffalo Bill Megapack: 5 Classic Books About Buffalo Bill Cody (2013 edition), Wildside Press LLC -
The first two battles of this new era are now over. The battles of Afghanistan and Iraq has been won decisively and honorably.
April 28, 2003 -
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
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The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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The great man has two hearts - one bleeds, the second one endures.
Sand and Foam (1926) -
The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
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The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'
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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
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