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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.
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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
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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.
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England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
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England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.
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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.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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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.
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Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.
Source: Shape your swing the modern way (1976) -
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
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Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
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Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the Good Spirit will not hurt them. For my part I am of the opinion, that so far as we have reason, we have a right to use it in determining what is right or wrong, and we should always pursue that path which we believe to be righ
Source: The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833) -
Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting (2006) 12 -
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
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Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
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