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“Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.”

“If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.”

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Author:Theodore T. Munger

“Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.”

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Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Other actors dont get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose its interesting for everybody other than me.”

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Author:Luke Treadaway

“As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.”

Source: Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life

“Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.”

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Author:Theodore T. Munger

“The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was the city, hers the wilderness; his was the sun, hers the moon; his the domesticated flocks, hers the wild, untamed animals; he was the god of music, she was the inspiration for round dances on the mountains.”

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Author:Jean Shinoda Bolen

“Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.”

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Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.”

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Author:Homer

“In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.”

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“My wife Jennifer's family is all from there. Jennifer grew up there, so we have personal ties forever - her mom, dad, her brother, her twin brother - so, there's certainly a personal connection there that will also be there. Also, even though I grew up in Omaha, I feel like I really grew up in Milwaukee.”

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Author:Peter Buffett

“I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost interest and went more towards literature and then medicine and then business and so on. But for me it became something that I did well. And it felt great being able to make something look like something.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I hope my twin brother will look exactly like me but more sporty.”

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Author:Tenzing Norgay