Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: ‘What is the scientific status of the claims?’ ‘What social or ideological needs do they serve?’ – Noam Chomsky
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. – Edmund Barton
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer. – Martin Amis
I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again. – Doris Kearns Goodwin
We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away. – Natalie Cole
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. – Gottfried Leibniz
I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me. – Foster Friess
Warrior Writer workshops have sprung up across the country, and of the ones I’ve attended and participated in, most contain at least one or two star writers. – Matt Gallagher
You’re allowed to rip-off another score so close that it’s ridiculous. In my opinion it’s ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier. – Danny Elfman
I’ve been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I’m not a grown-up – well, at least for two hours a night! – Cathy Rigby
The direct market has evolved into a machine that is very good at selling corporate-owned superhero titles published by two main companies: DC and Marvel. – Chris Roberson
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next. – Mary Doria Russell
I rate Fabien Barthez and played with two great keepers in Alex Stepney and Harry Gregg. – George Best
We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships. – Gavin MacLeod
For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I’m not mentally stable enough for that – I need to separate my two worlds. – Emily Browning
When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us. – Desi Arnaz
I’ve built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects. – Peter Zumthor
Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist. – Emo Philips
Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina,’ that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two. – Nancy Kress
Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. – Nadia Comaneci
It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big. – Martin Jacques
I’ve played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses – and that’s probably enough for any man. – Charlton Heston
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests. – Charles C. Mann
With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can’t stop publishing ‘The Magazine’ for two months and work on something else. – Marco Arment
