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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

  

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• 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