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CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of… — Ambrose Bierce
Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble,… — Adam Lindsay Gordon
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two… — William Shakespeare
If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North… — Samuel Eliot Morison
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting… — Jo Boaler
Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse. — Harry Sinden
Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's… — Unknown Author
But if two and two and fifty make a million,... — Pete Seeger
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the… — Unknown Author
Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof… — Ronald Graham
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. — Alan Perlis
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At… — Epictetus
Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the… — Charles M. Schulz
DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper… — Ambrose Bierce
The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up. — Roger Ebert
Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be… — Brian Tracy
Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then… — Aristotle
... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the… — David Hume
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it… — Gottfried Leibniz
Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction. — Lee Smolin
We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could… — Warren Buffett
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. — Maya Angelou
If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break… — Pete Seeger
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will… — James Surowiecki

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