Quotes 61 till 80 of 1201.
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... if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.
Schneier, Bruce (2005) -
80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.
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A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
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A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
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A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
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A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
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A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
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A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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