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“...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free the slaves; and, especially, his not freeing the slaves in 'loyal' Kentucky and other United States areas or even in Confederate areas occupied by United States troops, such as New Orleans.”

Two War States Wish United United States Saws Areas Slave Denial Civil War Two Things Loyal Troops Proven New Orleans Englishmen Kentucky Confederate Insincerity

Author:Sheldon Vanauken

“No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.”

Men Way Mind Looks Littles Two Action Jobs Purpose Strong Deals Fire Office Hundred Weak Mark Hot Constant Fingers Two Things Iron Cages Squirrels Weak Man Weak Minds Irons In The Fire

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them”

Writing Two Book Memories Wit Invention Two Things Allies Good Memories Treacherous Bad Memories

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“When you face discouragement, you can do one of two things, and the one you choose will color your perspective. You can look at others to place the blame, or you can look at yourself to discover your opportunities. The choice is yours.”

Looks Two Faces Choices Opportunity Can Do Color Perspective Encouragement Blame Two Things Over You You Choose Discouragement Look At Yourself

Book:The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset

Source: The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset

“Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.”

Art Two Different Realizing Practice Aspect Separation Two Things

Author:Meredith Monk

“I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.”

Two Literature Forever Two Things Trembling Huckleberry

Author:Mark Twain

“Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.”

Knows Humans Two Wisdom Seems Human Beings Perfect Couple Perfection Greek Two Things Proportion Finest Statues Contradictory Great Ones Ruth Perfect Marriage

Author:Billy Graham

“Two things help to keep one's job. First, let the boss think he's having his own way. Second, let him have it.”

Thinking Way Firsts Two Helping Wisdom Jobs Two Things Boss

Author:Sam Ewing

“The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.”

Persons Two Soul Essence Paint Painter Two Things Aries

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.”

Should Trying Two Would Be Values Causes Trouble Economic Equality Two Things Recognise Economic Systems Recognise You

Author:Paul Dirac

“For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.”

Source: A discourse against transubstantiation

“If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.”

Ifs Firsts Persons Two Ideas Home Reality Seems Happens Interesting Creativity Taste Right Now Areas Two Things Relax Surround Surround Yourself Homemaking

Book:Hidden art

Source: Hidden art

“The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.”

Writing Firsts Two Book Hard Lasts Enjoy Hard Work Pages Two Things

Author:Rachel Gibson

“There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.”

Two Christian Married Two Things Being Married

Author:Paul Tournier

“Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.”

Two Effort Impossible One Thing Two Things

Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.”

People Knows Want Feels Two Moving Common Two Things Happy People

Author:Barbara Sher

“It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.”

Knows Wells Heart Littles Two Together Violence Broken Bounds Two Things Relief Broken Heart

Author:Julie Powell

“Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.”

Two States Deals Teach Two Things Florida Hurricanes Aftermath Margarita

Author:Tom Feeney

“There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.”

Men Two Three Trouble Healthy Ambition Financial Two Things Catastrophe Three Things

Author:Peter Altenberg

“You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex”

Knows Life Made Two Different Sex Views Point Of View Two Things Feminine Masculine Knowing God Mischief Different Points Of View Masculine And Feminine

Author:Beatrice Wood

“Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.”

Way Two Together Innovation Two Things New Ways Innovation And Leadership

Author:Tom Freston

“There are two things to do about the gospel. Believe it and behave it.”

Believe Two Behave Things To Do Two Things

Author:Susanna Wesley

“There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.”

Two Computer Concepts Two Things Initials Implementation

Author:Bertrand Meyer

“The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again”

World Looks Two Snow Two Things

Book:The Last Enchantments

Source: The Last Enchantments

“Losing more of our existing nuclear fleet will make it that much tougher to meet our carbon reduction goals. We need to keep ramping up renewables, but they can't meet our need for reliable power 24/7. Nuclear is a baseload source and it's carbon-free - two things we need.”

Needs Two Goal Source Losing Nuclear Two Things Carbon Reduction

Author:Eileen Claussen

“At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is, or else we are resisting what is. Being with what is means letting ourselves have and feel our experience, just as it is right now. ... This is where genuine creativity, health, and communication, as well as spiritual power, arise from.”

Feels Wells Mean Two Moments Spiritual Creativity Communication Right Now Happenings Genuine Arise Two Things Resisting Spiritual Power

Author:John Welwood

“Where I'm from, there's two things you don't mess with. You don't mess with a man's woman, or his hat DON'T TOUCH A MAN'S HAT!”

Men Two Mess Two Things Hats

Author:Jase Robertson

“Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net.”

Two Stories Fall Air Storytelling Two Things

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Two Things that Define SUCCESS In LIFE: - The Way You Manage when You Have Nothing & Way You Behave when You Have Everything”

Way Two Manage Behave Two Things Success In Life Define Success

Author:Akon

“There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

Years Wells Two Different Moving Asks Answers Love Is Sea Two Things Shore Love Is Like Live Well

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.”

Giving Wells Mean Said Two Order Names Pleasure Known Laughter Philosopher Two Things Well Known German Philosopher

Author:John Cage

“And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.”

People Trying Looks Kind Two Together Faces Fate Pride Prejudice Smile Manage Two Things Never Quit Doom Double Take

Author:Rosamund Pike

“Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.”

Two Two Things Injury Tigers Bad Marriage

Author:Dan Jenkins

“In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us, and to have Him dwelling in us, that we recognize His presence, and know that we are His, and He is ours. The one is salvation; the other, the assurance of it.”

Knows Men Two Character Greatness Salvation Two Things Assurance Dwelling Impart Greatness Of Man

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“You must every day make higher ground. You must deny yourself to make progress with God. You must refuse every- thing that is not pure and holy. God wants you pure in heart. He wants you to have an intense desire after holiness... Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.”

Want Heart Two Today Desire Progress Higher Holy Promise Pure Refuse Deny Intense Purity Two Things Holiness Leap Holy God Higher Ground

Author:Smith Wigglesworth

“Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.”

Needs Giving Trying Mean Two Forget Giving Up Addiction Hardest Irony Fixed Two Things Catastrophe Deep Down Heroin

Author:Edward St Aubyn

“We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be thankful, so those are our ceremonies, ceremonies of thanksgiving. We built nations around it, and you can do that, too. And the other thing they said was enjoy life. That's a rule, a law- enjoy life- you're supposed to.”

Said Two Law Nations Enjoy Can Do Built Two Things They Said Enjoy Life Ceremony Being Thankful

Author:Oren Lyons

“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”

Want Should Two Different Order Girl Findings Creating Two Things Finding Yourself Irreplaceable Different Life Creating Yourself

Author:Coco Chanel

“Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness - you can always remember that you are free in every moment to set the compass of your heart to your highest intentions. In fact, the two things that you are always free to do - despite your circumstances - are to be present and to be willing to love.”

Source: A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times

“My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.”

Want Life Two Book Ideas Fighting Rich Two Things Buying Richness Negative People Pricing Buying Books

Author:John Waters

“There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and the other one is Malt Whisky”

Two Likes Naked Two Things Whiskey Scotch Whisky Highlander Whisk Scotch Whiskey Scotch Whisky Malt

Author:R. H. Bruce Lockhart

“A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.”

Two Humor Bigs Funny Comedy Mark Two Things Stretch Marks

Author:Katt Williams

“If you're a guy, you have absolutely no idea what's going on at any time in the relationship, ever. Here's what you know: you know when you're getting laid, and you know when it's all over. Those are the only two things you're aware of.”

Ifs Knows Two Ideas Humor Funny Guy Comedy No Idea Two Things Getting Laid

Author:Adam Carolla

“We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no "either/or" here; it is always "both/and." These two things must go together.”

Looks Two Inspiration Together Spirit Holy Extremes Preparation Holy Spirit Rely Two Things Despise Either Or Anointing

Book:Preaching and Preachers

Source: Preaching and Preachers

“I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.”

Two Whole Moments Asks Forget Lovely Cups Two Things Squad Great Moments

Author:Alessandro Del Piero

“If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.”

Ifs Two Painting Photography Photograph Two Things Scratches

Book:Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography

Source: Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography

“There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.”

Giving Two Truth Earth Courses Giving Up Two Things Nonviolence Not Giving Up

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.”

Men Two Character Education Manners Two Things Good Man Good Manners

Author:Nicholas Murray Butler

“Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.”

Want Two Real Lying Values Taken Wise Happenings Notes Two Things Negotiation Real Value

Author:Michael A. Stackpole

“Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Pain does two things: it teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. And everything that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one way or another.”

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