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19503 Two quotes by 9407 unique authors
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When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.
— Johnny Mercer
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I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.
— Charles Bukowski
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The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through…
— Blaise Pascal
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Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This…
— Vannevar Bush
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Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.
— Joseph Brodsky
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In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.
— Leo Tolstoy
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One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.
— Thom Yorke
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
— Eugene Ionesco
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I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that…
— Piet Mondrian
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Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities…
— Elio Di Rupo
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You should see me, dressed to kill. I wear a pair of hacked-off jeans and a too-big T-shirt that I can roll up onto my…
— Raphael
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What's wrong with being number two?
— Morrie Schwartz
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Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man,…
— Colin Powell
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It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery
— Poul Anderson
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I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's…
— Poul Anderson
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Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money…
— Robert Silverberg
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Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I…
— Samuel R. Delany
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I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does.…
— Pete Conrad
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