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two religion plunder
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. Charles Caleb Colton
two debt possession
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
two firsts quarrels
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.
two iron gold
There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.
two together mistress
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
two may acquaintance
Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.
two people way
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
two literature may
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
two small-changes society
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. Charles Dickens
anarchy chaos vendetta
This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos. Alan Moore
anarchy beat both coexist control design discipline extreme freedom henry human james life necessary poets suggest work
The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable. Mark Helprin
anarchy woodstock whole-life
Woodstock was about the closest thing to anarchy I've ever seen in my whole life, and I didn't like it. Billie Joe Armstrong
anarchy brutal despite freeing gotten hard iraqis justify liberation life perspective
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. Timothy Noah
anarchy became create victim wants
She (Sonia) wants to create anarchy in this country. She became a victim of her own actions. Uma Bharati
anarchy breathing characters people
You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos. Deborah Moggach
anarchy wave utopia
The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence. Aldous Huxley
anarchy dominated drove hairy life lines physical towel younger
There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough, my voice jumped around. It was a thing that drove me away from towel lines in gym class. Adam Rapp
anarchy life-is abstinence
Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now! Anton LaVey
ordinary ridiculous buried
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
ordinary earth violence
In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori on the extraordinary violence and suddenness of changes, both in the inorganic crust of the earth, and in organic types, instead of attempting strenuously to frame theories in accordance with the ordinary operations of nature. Charles Lyell
ordinary stories littles
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary. Charles Kuralt
ordinary-things ordinary excited
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. David Hockney
ordinary
Live a life less ordinary. Benedict Cumberbatch
ordinary half waste
The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer. Beatrice Webb
ordinary different sound
My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life. Dee Snider
ordinary god-love divine
The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
ordinary genius done
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. Benjamin Haydon