“ If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. ”
- Euripides- Copy
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“ For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud… ”
- Neil Gershenfeld- Copy
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“ Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ”
- Marcus Garvey- Copy
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“ You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ”
- Heraclitus of Ephesus- Copy
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“ I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ If you were in a room with Kadaffi, Saddam Hussien, and John Sununu, and you only had two bullets, what would you do. Shoot John Sununu twice. ”
- Paul Tsongas- Copy
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“ Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
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“ What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches? ”
- The Quarterly Review- Copy
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“ The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. ”
- Willie Tyler- Copy
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“ You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ”
- Heraclitus- Copy
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“ Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ They have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'. ”
- Ian Fleming- Copy
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“ Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. ”
- Gloria Estefan- Copy
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“ Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. ”
- Paulo Cuelho- Copy
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