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19503 Two quotes by 9407 unique authors
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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write…
— John Thorn
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At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he…
— Archibald MacLeish
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He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
— Tammy Wynette
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The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
— George Orwell
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The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
— Pete Rose
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If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a…
— Satchel Paige
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The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who…
— Reza Aslan
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I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.
— Diane Arbus
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I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs…
— Betty Friedan
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Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.
— Shirley Chisholm
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.
— Thomas Pynchon
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One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in…
— John Barth
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army…
— Edward Abbey
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
— Edward Abbey
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two…
— Edward Abbey
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In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies…
— Edward Abbey
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There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
— Edward Abbey
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.
— Edward Abbey
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