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The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

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Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

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Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Two Quotes , People Quotes

A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

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I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

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However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

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The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

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Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

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Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

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We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

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Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

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God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

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There is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out.

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Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

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I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.

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Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

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Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

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