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“If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.”

Ifs Men Littles Two Whole Feelings Light Youth Fairs Sight Lays Disappointment Spread Chiefs Dawn Life Time Rosy

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.”

World Humans Two Problem Human Beings Groups Century Solutions Fairs Acknowledge Divided

Book:We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.”

Two Faces Grace Four Sweet Ten Fairs Shining Wit Goddess Charming Muse Adore Venus Stella Cyprus

Author:Callimachus

“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”

“World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace”

World Needs Two Nations Practice Resources Fairs Foundation Wide Access Plenty Permanent Conservation Indispensable

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.”

Knows Two Earth Lasts Form Order Love Is Steps Practice Fairs Essence Absolutes Notion Sake Essence Of Beauty Symposium

Book:The Portable Plato

Source: The Portable Plato

“In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.”

“No, Don Camillo; you didn't exactly steal it. Peppone had two cigars in his pocket. Peppone is a Communist. He believes in sharing things. By skillfully relieving him of one cigar, you only took your fair share.”

Believe Two Wisdom Politics Economy Share Fairs Stealing Liberalism Pockets Communist Cigar Fair Share Sharing Things

Author:Giovannino Guareschi

“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.”

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.”

“Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.”

Ifs Feels Long Two Shows Seems Rooms Fire Sitting Fairs Lists Bars Video Pot Electric Invitations Sweaters Saga Outdated Isle Noodles

Author:Simon Hoggart

“The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.”

Men Two Three Generations He Man Fairs Tricks Meant To Be Three Times Three Generations

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.”

Thinking Years Two Done Shows Able Culture Three Share New York Fairs Theater Incredibles Fortunate Three Times Fair Share Live Theater

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.”

People Mean Two Government Political Party Dangerous Concepts Fairs Thirds Agree Fairness Political Correctness Despotism Third Parties

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.”

Giving Years Heart Said Stills Two Term Friendship Fire Fine Essentials Eating Fairs Fellows Appreciation Warm Dinner Wide Sensitive Two Things Unimportant Flavour

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.”

“Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. For that fortune, some sold their soul to Satan. Was on track for the first two years, then i let the Devil steer. Now i got to mask my tears, but allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Cole: Born sinner, opposite of a winner. But the Devil run the T.V. so the demons in him, I'm in trouble did a deal with the Devil but now I'm pleading with him like give me my soul. I ain't ever letting go but the devil don't play fair.”

“Frankly speaking, I hate comparisons. Two individuals are doing two different films, playing two different characters: how can you compare them? It is not fair to get into ratings. It really doesn't matter what I think about other actresses; what matters is what the directors think of them when they are casting them in a project, because I think it's the director who's behind a successful piece of cinema.”

“I'm not against art fairs, in fact this last one I even made money, but the concept is really disgusting. If you're that rich to be able to hang out for two or three days, you're certainly rich enough to get on a plane and go to Munich or Düsseldorf or wherever and see somebody's real show instead of this stuff just stacked around.”

Ifs Art Made Two Real Enough Facts Shows Able Lasts Three Stuff Rich Concepts Fairs Planes Hanging Out Disgusting Munich

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

Ifs Men Way Two Ends Action Doubt Healthy Judgment Fairs Errors Dues Certainty Contemplation Rough Mature Skepticism Smooth Impatience Two Ways Assertion Haste Entrances Troublesome Suspension

Author:Francis Bacon

“America can compete with anyone in the world as long as the playing field is level. China's been cheating over the years. One by holding down the value of their currency. Number two, by stealing our intellectual property; our designs, our patents, our technology. We will have to have people play on a fair basis.”

“There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. It is hardly fair to get them in a church in the name of duty and there inflict upon them a sermon that under no circumstances they would read...the idea of going fifty-two days in a year to hear anybody on the same subject is absurd.”

People Ifs Writing Years Two Ideas Stories Names Wish Church Forever Subjects Duty Circumstances Fairs Hearing Absurd Ministers Fifty Buying Sermons Publish Two Days

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.”

Years Littles Two Important Interesting Lessons Fairs Years Ago Weather Awards Important Lessons Fetch Fair Weather Friend

Author:Martin Short

“Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.”

Source: Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. By Captn. J. G. Stedman ... ...

“Justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.”

Way Trying Two Done Justice Boys Fairs Forgiving Satisfied Judgement Shantaram

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan.”

Two Hands Plans Fairs Noble Boat Curves Two Hands

Author:Guy Clark

“I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk." Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line."”

“It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.”

Thinking Needs Writing Littles Two Ideas Stories Might Easy Understanding Reader Scene Skills Fairs Flow Narrative Clue Protagonists Ebb And Flow

Author:Dennis Green

“I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the entire history of filmmaking, every year there have been about two really wonderful movies, about 10 others that are pretty good, and a whole pile of garbage.”

Ifs Knows Years Has Beens Two Whole Seems Wonderful Fairs Filmmaking Garbage Bad Times

Author:William H. Macy

“We took a fair bit of liberty with the story, but the basic premise of the film ["Selling Isobel" ] - a girl is kidnapped on the streets of a city and held captive for three days and two nights while various men show up and exploit her - is the exact truth.”

Men Two Stories Shows Film Night Girl Three Bits Cities Liberty Streets Fairs Various Selling Exploits Premises Captives Kidnapped

Author:Rudolf Buitendach

“[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.”

Ifs Two Winning Loses Accepting Trump Fairs Outcomes

Author:Jesse Jackson

“We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were that attractive. But when people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything. There are times when cash buys more than other times, and this is one of the other times when it buys a fair amount more, so we use it.”

People Ifs Want Years Doe Two Reason Use Used Havens Amount Kings Fairs Years Ago Attractive Two Years Cash Two Years Ago

Author:Warren Buffett

“I was watching a documentary that during the Bay of Pigs crisis JFK had about two weeks before anybody reported on it. Imagine that. I think it's fair to say that if something like that happens under a current president, they've got to figure out in about an hour what their response is.”

Ifs Thinking Two Happens President Hours Imagine Week Figures Fairs Crisis Response Currents Imagine That Pigs Documentaries Two Weeks Bay Of Pigs

Author:Barack Obama

“Equality is not possible. The pursuit of equality, however, people really love that. For some reason, people attach the most wonderful of motives to people who say they see all this inequality out there and need to fix it. It's just not fair. You'll hear it manifest itself in discussions about the so-called widening gap between the rich and the poor or the widening gap between men and women. It's like actually two twin beds.”

People Men Needs Two Reason Poor Rich Wonderful Bed Men And Women Fairs Pursuit Inequality Discussion Motive Gaps Manifest Twins Not Fair

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.”

Writing Years Two Ideas Stories Months Fairs Notes Intense My Time Traveled Maidens Two Months Rewriting Folders Maiden Names

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.”

Ifs Firsts May Art Two Shows Culture Water Imagine Huge Happenings Fairs Crosses Towns Great Things Visuals Annoying New Yorkers

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.”

World Believe May Two Dream Seems Found Names Grief Virtue Failing Goodness Fairs Grieving Deceiving Foe Sincerely Merciful Snares

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.”

Two Eye Faces Night Stars Bits Sky Fairs Blue Night Sky Two Bit

Book:MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest

Source: MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest

“Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.”

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“He smiled and tapped my nose. "Two thank-yous in as many days. I don't suppose I'll get to see any, uh, special gratitude?" I scoffed. "Nope. You'll just have to imagine it." He gave me a half-hug and released me. "Fair enough. But I have a good imagination.”

Two Enough Imagination Half Imagine Special Gratitude Fairs Noses Hug

Author:Richelle Mead

“Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll...I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you," she improvised. "And that I got mugged," she added for good measure. Cries of "Mon Dieu!" and "That's not fair!" echoed immediately from the two vampires. "I'm a crazy human female, you know I'll do it," Denise warned them”

Thinking Knows Humans Two Crazy Cry Female Fairs Let Me Vampire Get Away Away From You Not Fair Spades Holding Back

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Two Might Together Brain Needed Fairs Necks Chocolate Categories Sweat Packages Irresistible Sauce Spoons Shovels

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“DEMON MATH What is JUST in a world you've ripped in two as if there could be a half for me a half for you what is FAIR when there is nothing left to share what is YOURS when your pain is mine to bear this sad math is mine this mad path is mine subtract they say don't cry back to the desk try forget addition multiply and i reply this is why remainders hate division.”

Ifs World Trying Two Pain Hate Left Forget Half Path Share Cry Mines Bears Fairs Mad Math Demon Division Desks Ripped

Author:Kami Garcia

“Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.”

Two Enough Bigs Friendship Fairs Weather Ships Foul Funny Friend Fair Weather Friend

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Is there something I can help with?” “No,” Kat said petulantly. “You’re a man and I hate all of you right now.” He took two steps back. “Fair enough. Since my presence is obviously causing you pain, I’ll take my manhood outside to the terrace, where you can join me if you can overlook my obvious birth defect.”

Ifs Men Said I Can Two Enough Helping Pain Hate Steps Birth Right Now Fairs I Hate Obvious Manhood Defects Terrace Birth Defects

Book:Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed. The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies. Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure to the harsh weather of independent thought.”