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'Superman' has always been about Lois Lane, Superman and Clark Kent and this love triangle between these three people who really are only two people.
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'The Wire's definitely one of them. 'The Sopranos' is one of my all-time favorites. Those are two big ones for me.
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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
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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 city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
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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it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.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 good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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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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