Honore De Balzac Quotes, Music Quotes, Two Quotes

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

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It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved.

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There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything.

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

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A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.

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You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

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I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that's what you see.

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Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.

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Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

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One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

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Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness.

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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.

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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

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Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

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picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

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