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19503 Two quotes by 9407 unique authors
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When it comes to practically everything, we seem to be of two minds.
— Hollis Frampton
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them…
— Harold Acton
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I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented
— Roger Casement
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If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the…
— S E Hinton
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The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.
— George MacDonald Fraser
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A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it…
— Juan Manuel Santos
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Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two…
— Bartolome de las Casas
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Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.
— Nick Lowe
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them…
— Allen Tate
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I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many…
— Pete Doherty
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I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
— Sean Lennon
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There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the…
— Laura Lippman
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Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
— W. Edwards Deming
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Almost any age is better than twenty-two.
— David Rakoff
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Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily…
— Ammon Hennacy
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly,…
— D W Griffith
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A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.
— Stephen Dobyns
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The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ.…
— Scott Stapp
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Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well,…
— G. H. Hardy
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To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived…
— R. Scott Bakker
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I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the…
— Scott Lynch
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I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.
— Darrell Issa
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There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. Â One is the production and exchange of…
— Albert J. Nock
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The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State…
— Albert J. Nock
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I spend time with my family. I have got two daughters who are too young to know their Dad's a footballer. They just want to…
— Alan Shearer
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