Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
You try to figure out the two things that I use as the philosophy to do a golf course. The first is… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
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Socrates splits himself into two, so that there are two Socrates: the Socrates who knows in advance how the discussion is going… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
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I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
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The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays… — Don Hewitt Copy Share Image
Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I'm from East Sheen, I went to public school where I learned Latin at the age of nine, and certain expectations were… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
But I have to confess, I'm glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together." I'm not glad," says… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Take the Long Way Home is a song that I wrote that's on two levels - on one level I'm talking about… — Roger Hodgson Copy Share Image
Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
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In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
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The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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Whether we like it or not, the modernity is something that comes from Western countries, and when the modernity comes to the… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
You need to recognize that the copyright date on a book reflects when it came out, not when it was written -… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
We have great information. They're going to welcome us. It'll be like the American Army going through the streets of Paris. They're… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part… — James Key Copy Share Image
We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free ... the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I wouldn't consider retiring to India: there are too many people, and it's difficult walking along the pavements. I'd love to spend… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Some authorities believe that one prosperous thought is more powerful than a thousand failure thoughts; and that two prosperous attitudes steadily held… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
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If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking.… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image