Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  • Two

• I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

  

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  • Hope
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• I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

  

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  • Two
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• My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

  

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• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

  

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  • Two
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• Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

  

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  • Value
  • Two
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• We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Lose
  • Two
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• The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

  

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  • World
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• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  

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  • America
  • Two
  • Caribbean

• To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Enjoy
  • Say
  • Agree

• For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

  

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  • Two
  • Once
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• I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

  

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• There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.

  

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• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

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• There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

  

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  • Two
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• I speak two languages, Body and English.

  

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• My father and my mother separated when I was two.

  

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• If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.

  

  Barry Diller
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• If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
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• Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine. Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid laugh. I really hate it when girls do that.I mean, yes, she's older, but I have boobs, too.

  

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  • She
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• You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

  

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  • People
  • May
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• I told Patrick that the decisions we've made, it should be pretty obvious, are based on the fact that we think a whole lot of him, ... We think he's got a tremendous future with us.

  

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  • Future
  • Pretty
  • Team

• I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Two
  • Agree
  • Excellent Thing