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  • Campbell Brown After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bill Dedman After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar jackets take charge of the scene, secure evidence, follow leads.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein After a two-term presidency, many young voters seem to want someone who is radically different from, even the opposite of, the commander in chief to whom they have become accustomed. After all, a two-term president will have led their nation for a significant percentage of their lives. That's boring. Isn't it time for a transformation?
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Budge After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Bob Ney After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • John Ruskin All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
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    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Albert Speer All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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