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The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.

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We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

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Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Two Quotes

There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.

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Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.

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In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

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Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham.

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Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

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The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Party Quotes , Two Quotes

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

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The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

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Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

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