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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.
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To write it - three months, to conceive it - three minutes. To collect the data in it - all my life.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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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.
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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.
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
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True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant.
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Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
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Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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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 -
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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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.
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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.
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Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
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