Barack Obama Quotes, Government Quotes, Two Quotes

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

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Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.

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The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?

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We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude. [Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]

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No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Two Quotes , World Quotes

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

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A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Two Quotes

While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. When your only problem IS a nail, all you want is a decent hammer. There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle.

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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Lying Quotes , Two Quotes

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Two Quotes

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece.

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

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The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

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The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

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Relationship between human beings is based on the image-forming, defensive mechanism. In our relationships each of us builds an image about the other, and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Two Quotes , Our Relationship Quotes

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

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Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.

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