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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Arnold Beisser Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.
    Arnold Beisser
    American psychiatrist (1925 - 1991)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • E. M. Forster Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Homer Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Jonathan Swift Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Callimachus Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore;
    The Muses are ten, the Graces are four;
    Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face;
    She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.
    Epigrams Epigram 5; translation by Jonathan Swift, cited fr
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Gaston Bachelard Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Al Spalding Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
    Al Spalding
    American baseball player, and baseball manager and businessman (1850 - 1915)
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  • Casey Stengel Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Baldwin Spencer Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
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  • Alfred Korzybski Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Bum Phillips Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin Two men please God - who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bob Beauprez Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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