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  • Umberto Eco If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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  • Anita Loos If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Billy Casper If you can help anyone in any way, that is what we are here for. The pinnacle of my life has really been two lives - golf and service to my fellow man.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • Wilson Mizner If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism. If you copy from two, it's research.
    Alva Johnston - The Legendary Mizners (1953)
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Billie Holiday If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Gloria Steinem If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Philip Roth If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Janet Malcolm If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Beth Gutcheon If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.
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  • Barbara Corcoran If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • John Tillotson Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Burton Richter In 1960, I married Laurose Becker. We have two children: Elizabeth, born in 1961, and Matthew, born in 1963.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bee Wilson In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Billy Evans In all probability, when the 1919 series is over, a diagnosis of it will show that the final result was brought about by some unusual situation or freak happening that was given no consideration when the relative strength of the two clubs was considered.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Horace Benchley In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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