Quotes with two-penny

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  • Abbe Pierre People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anatole Broyard People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Bill Gates People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington People used to say of the two Oliphant brothers that Harlan Oliphant looked as if he lived in the Oliphant's house, but Dan didn't.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Margaret Oliphant Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Mae West Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Todd Andrew Reid Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves...So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
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  • Charles Baudelaire Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Boris Pasternak Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
    LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • George Orwell Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Brock Lesnar Really, it was either fight in the UFC or fight in the WWE. There wasn't the option of both. That was a key factor. What am I going to do? I didn't want to juggle two careers anyway.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Nathaniel Branden Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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