Quotes with two-person

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  • Barack Obama Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
    An American story: the speeches of Barack Obama: a primer
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Joseph Stowell Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • Will Rogers Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Jerry Garcia Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
    Jerry Garcia
    American singer-songwriter and guitarist (1942 - 1995)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Archibald Macleish Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Wilson Mizner Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Samuel Johnson Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Frances Rodman Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
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  • Epictetus Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Charles Dickens Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Michael Ondaatje Death means you are in the third person.
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    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Alice Walker Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bob Barr Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Victor Hugo Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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