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  • Aaron Sorkin Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Byron Nelson Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
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  • Boris Pasternak Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Simone Weil Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Buddy Hackett As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Buddy Hackett As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Ben Horowitz As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Beth Ditto As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Bono As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Ada Leverson As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
    Loves Shadow (1908) Ch. xxxix
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Clive James As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Alistair Cooke As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • E. M. Forster As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Buzz Aldrin As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Audrey Hepburn As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Ann Landers At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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