“I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.” FirstsTwoNamesEducationThousandMembersUniversityFacultyTelephonesBostonHarvardHarvard UniversityFaculty Members Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.” IfsMenPersonsTwoDifferentStoriesAsksNamesSexHappenedMinesHe ManMarriedThirdsMathematicsEvery ManAnalysisFiftySplendidSelectMaidsThird PersonOld Maids Author:Primo Levi
“Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'” SaidTwoNamesCanadaSignifyingAca Author:Goldwin Smith
“A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.” MenWorldShouldTwoThreeNamesSuccessfulModernDifficultyBe A ManModern LifeSurgeons Author:Denton Cooley
“The good thing about Egypt is, between the two World Wars, Egypt was - had a liberal society. It has a political life. It has parties. It was not - it was dysfunctional in many ways, but it was not a very repressive regime. Egypt, at one time, was the bellwether of the Arab world, was the trendsetter, created great culture, movies, cinema, you name it.” WorldWayTwoWarPoliticalCultureNamesPartyGood ThingsCinemaWar Of The WorldsOne TimeRegimesEgyptTwo WorldsPolitical LifeArab World Author:Hisham Melhem
“On April 1, 1998, I launched Webmaster-Resources.com, and I remember that date specifically because it was the date that the price of a two-year domain name registration dropped from $100 to $70, and considering I was funding this out of my allowance, that $30 made all the difference.” YearsMadeTwoRememberNamesDifferencesResourcesTwo YearsConsideringDomainAprilFundingAllowanceRegistrationDomain Names Author:Matt Mickiewicz
“The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsWellsTwoTodayOrderNamesHalfCuttingImagineHundredFolksCreditDebtCardsMailOld PeopleCredit CardPuzzling Book:Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
“The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.” PeopleMenArtTwoWarNamesCommonModernConvincedSocialismPostsFeaturesSocialistOrthodoxyBourgeoisCommon ManModern ArtSnobberyPost War Author:Roger Scruton
“Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.” WellsTwoMatterArtistNamesForceFashionLifeless Book:Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews
“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.” LoveTwoImportantNamesOughtSnowFiftyValentineValentine's DayValentine LoveValentines Day LoveRomantic Valentines DayCute Valentines DayValentines Day CardsBe My ValentineValentine Card Book:Surfacing Source: Surfacing
“One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification have been developed by economists. One is the method of partial equilibrium analysis (or microeconomics), generally associated with the name of Alfred Marshall and the other is the method of aggregation (or macro-economics), associated with the name of John Maynard Keynes.” Has BeensTwoImportantNamesSkillsModelsEconomicsMethodAnalysisEconomistEquilibriumSimplificationKeynesMacroMicroeconomics Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?” MenFirstsTwoLastsCertainFoundNamesFeltFriendshipNumbersInspireWindowDiedRegardFellowsMortalsStaringGentlemanSpokesCall MeUnusualEntitledAssociatesSighReverieUltrasProminenceFriend Died Author:B. C. Forbes
“Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.” TwoEyeEarthTurnsNamesKnowingPleaseRelationTwo ThingsTemplesDespiseProphecySacramentsThresholdForgetfulnessIngratitudeKnowing Nothing Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.” IfsWorldYearsMayTwoHomeRememberNamesWishFamilyRecordsMissingExpressionMaterialsProudPeriodsRelationFaultsForgottenCome UpCommittedNobleAppealsFollyFortyAssetsBe ProudBack HomeBrowsLaurelsProud Of YouFamily Name Author:Corra May Harris
“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.” KnowsGivingYearsFirstsTwoSoulPlayRunningNamesSidesBornDarkDealsHellTroubleTearsLetting GoDevilFairsOppositesGive MeDancingFortuneTrackFollowingMy SoulWinnerSatanDemonMaskSinnerTwo YearsIntroducingKnow MeDark SideSteersPleadingDeals With The DevilDancing With The Devil Author:J. Cole