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There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.


Alfred Korzybski

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
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ANONYMOUS There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing i...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have suffic...
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W. C. FIELDS There are only two real ways to get ahead today -- sell liquor or drink it.
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EDMUND DAUKORU WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. ...
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JOHN CALLAHAN You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell
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EDITH WHARTON There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.
EDITH WHARTON There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that refledts it.
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ARIES EROLES I'm sure once we get everything squared away, all of our top players will play both ways.
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FéLIX J. PALMA Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots ...
JOHN KNOLL I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create w...
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DARRELL ROYAL We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it
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JODI PICOULT I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'
LIL WAYNE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I think both ways are ways to make the world a better place and to reduce the suffering.
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JIM GENOVESE The sad heart needs work to do.
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ANON. There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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LARRY MAKINSON abyss, n.

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ALFRED MARSHALL The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from ...
ALFRED MARSHALL All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir...
ALFRED MARSHALL Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benef...
ALFRED MARSHALL All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
ALFRED MARSHALL In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by...
ALFRED MARSHALL Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
ALFRED MARSHALL One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...
ALFRED AUSTIN Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
ALFRED AUSTIN Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
ALFRED AUSTIN The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...
ALFRED AUSTIN I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealis...
ALFRED NOBEL I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course...
ALFRED MOLINA