Quotes with two-states

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  • Anna Quindlen America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Abba Goold Woolson American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • J. Bartlett Brebner Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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  • Carl Lewis An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Alfred A. Knopf An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
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  • Augustine Birrell An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • Bob Schieffer And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bret Harte And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story — yet Could she think of a sweeter way?
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Barack Obama And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Barack Obama And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Carine Roitfeld Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bobby R. Inman Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
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  • Plato Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Alain Juppe Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.
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  • Nathanael Emmons Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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