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“Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.”

World Mind Two War Pay Gone Air Greatness Mets Praise Pursuit Hills Shock Everlasting Lofty Two Worlds Bards

Author:Philip James Bailey

“Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.”

People Should Two Party Policy Election Profound Identical Rascals Foreign Relations Two Party System

Author:Carroll Quigley

“One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . . And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.”

Men Should Made Two Home Half Century One Day Woods Bent Trails Boston Footsteps Crooked Precedent Calves Primeval

Author:Sam Walter Foss

“I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.”

Made Two Different Light Three Speak Cases Theory Thousand Prove Discovery Connections Experiments Electric Exaggeration Electric Light

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.”

Years Wells Two Able Three Reading Sake Three Years Worthwhile

Book:Northanger abbey

Source: Northanger abbey

“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”

“A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal”

Two Thirds Universal Scandal Applause

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make.”

People Years Mind Two Matter Goal Ability Achieve Commitment Foundation Accomplish Meaningful Accomplishment Contribution Peace Of Mind What Matters Most Meaningful

Author:Stephen Covey

“All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.”

Years Two Study Air Students Months Summer Ordinary Dues Instruction Two Months

Author:Howard Pyle

“Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.”

Two Lying Circumstances Equal Envy Being Equal

Author:Jeremy Collier

“We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.”

Years Two Seems Past Situation Policy Gains Regard Raised Two Years Sustainability Equity Caution

Author:Alan Greenspan

“You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.”

Two Problem Artist Two Things

Book:The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

“To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.”

“By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.”

I Can Two Film Bits Effects Harmony Patterns Drawing Exposing

Author:Norman McLaren

“Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.”

Two Opportunity Innovation Resilience New Things Creativity And Innovation Business Innovation New Opportunity Innovation And Business Gold Rush

Author:Jeff Bezos

“American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.”

World Should Two Possibility Prosperity Connected Enterprise Unusual Free Enterprise

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“I am good at only two things, and those are gardening and painting.”

Two Painting Two Things Gardening

Author:Claude Monet

“If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul.”

Ifs Two Soul Body Health Sells Bread Hyacinths

Author:Herodotus

“There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.”

Humans Two Different Facts Wisdom Human Beings Statements Human Wisdom

Author:Mark Van Doren

“Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.”

“The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.”

Two Opportunity Acting Mistake Worst Warrior Making Mistakes Slips Recipes Resorts Strategic My Mistakes I Make Mistakes I Have Made Mistakes Warrior Of The Light

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.”

Two Night Flower Moon Wine Rounds Lips Golden Cups Orange Bud Slender Swelling Waxing

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?”

Two Asks Difficulty

Book:The Gift of Self-Confidence

Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence

“Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two.”

Knows Want Two Important Sometimes Reason Religion Sin Answers Pride Machines Presses Phones Supreme Avarice Supreme Being Sin Of Pride

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.”

Way Mean Art Two Feelings Space Seeing Divorce Originality New Ways

Author:David Hockney

“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!”

Two War Together Film Bits Painting Photography Shots Photographer Photograph Iraq Newspapers Experts Chemicals Editing Iraq War Crumbling

Author:David Hockney

“You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.”

People Ifs Knows Persons Two Book Divine Balance Two Things Teamwork Associates

Author:Earl Nightingale

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”

“Washington is dangerously positioned between two Canadas, Canada Canada and California's Canada, Oregon.”

Two Danger California Canada Oregon

Author:Stephen Colbert

“You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.”

Two Three Numbers Worry Repetition Placement Number Three

Author:Ornette Coleman

“The motorcycle black madonna Two wheeled gypsy queen.”

Two Black Queens Motorcycle Gypsy

Author:Bob Dylan

“Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed”

Two Numbers Failure Departed

Author:Gustav Mahler

“When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.”

Way Has Beens Two Earth Used Religion Mark Grass Thirty Clay Blades Altars Lumps Cultivation Blades Of Grass

Author:Dogen

“Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.”

Two Reason Action Aspect Phenomenon

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.”

Two States Past Being True Persist Absent Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.”

Two Moments Pain Life Is Joy Pleasure Grief Sadness Intervals Pain And Pleasure Mosaics

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.”

Two Thieves Theft

Author:Aristophanes

“The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.”

Art Two Important Seems Purpose Community Education Study Subjects Fit Important Things Art And Science Civilised Purpose Of Education

Author:Anthony Burgess

“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”

Years May Two Age Memories Alive Politician Thousand Forgotten Immortality Thousand Years Bernard Shaw Stravinsky Madame Curie

Author:Anthony Burgess

“A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.”

People Love Made Two Opinion Miracle Meetings Borders Miscellaneous Made For Each Other

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different”

Two Different Sometimes Matter Character Form Concepts Property Wave Obvious Remarkable Radiation Particles Duality Exhibits

Book:The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

Source: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

“Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.”

Way Giving Two Spirit Progress Color Painting Materials Paint Sensations Progression

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.”

Way Firsts May Two Character Seems Form Ability Failing Greatness Succeed Importance Trials Spite Willingness Flawed Starting Over Measurement Two Ways Ability To Succeed

Author:Guy Finley

“People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.”

People Thinking World Looks Two Courses Perspective Conventions

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others - that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude.”

Wells Two Facts Able Accepting Security Solitude Constant Instinct Seeking Horrible Two Things Communion Grasping

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.”

Two Acting Fire Mark Cameras Distance Driven Delicious Being There Monitoring

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.”

Want Two Done Feelings Hours Feet Couple Not Sure Sat Finishing Great Feelings

Author:Damien Hirst

“Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.”

Way Littles Stills Two Different Seems Principles Effects Color Simplicity Manners Different Ways Reducing Grandeur Chiaroscuro

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.”

Ifs Writing Two Inspiration Used Hours Involved Mere Planning Beach Professors Classroom Lectures

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“Two consorts in heaven are not two, but one angel.”

Two Heaven Angel Matrimony

Book:Heaven and Hell: Also the World of Spirits Or Intermediate State from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg

Source: Heaven and Hell: Also the World of Spirits Or Intermediate State from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg