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two way poet
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. C. S. Lewis
two commandments knows
I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.
two differences looks
When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two. Cecelia Ahern
two tides sometimes
I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out. Carrie Fisher
two swings guy
There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.
two feelings mind
Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated. Carl Rogers
two enemy stronger
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline. Carl Sagan
two government firsts
First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?
two age leisure
A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work. Bill Bryson
genius irony sometimes
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes. Berkeley Breathed
genius critics
There are no more geniuses, only critics. Arnold Schoenberg
genius bombs atomic-bomb
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind. Bertrand Russell
genius
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. Maude Adams
genius living point science scientists shows themselves whether
Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
genius manner substitute whatever wit
Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit William Cowper
genius glad train
To have a filly like this is unbelievable, ... She's so smart. It doesn't take a genius to train her. I'm glad I have her. Jeff Mullins
genius good says stays strengths system within
He's a good coach. You know, you don't have to be a genius when you have 6-2 and 6-2 on the front. But the system he runs, he understands his strengths and stays within them. I think that says a lot about their program. Mike Kopp
genius playing
He's been playing great. I had nothing to do with that. It's not genius on my part; he's just playing great.
language method
Languages are true analytical methods. Antoine Lavoisier
language process inference
We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.
language unresolved work
We just went through some of our unresolved language items. I think we got most of them resolved. We're going to work on it a little more (today).
language learn
Will you let me talk? I'll have to learn the language all over again! Stan Freberg
language speak talk
We get to talk because we speak the same language, Jose Contreras
language speak
Ay, is it not a language I speak? William Shakespeare
language languages life wants wish
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. J. R. R. Tolkien
language last learned necessary speed successful takes technique together
I think so, because of the language that had to be learned and understood. The last thing you get is the technique because the language you can put together. But to be able to put the fundamentals together at the speed necessary to be successful takes some time. You can't have a lot of thought going through your mind. Marty Schottenheimer
language program quotes wants
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore. Yukihiro Matsumoto