#two

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#been #calculated #country #desire #getting

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#almighty god #comes #down #equal #every

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #any #appreciation #being #constantly

Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #build #center #domestic #economic

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#artificial #artificial intelligence #i #i am #intelligence

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#aside #bass #common #course #infinite

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. ↗

— Voltaire

#benefit #government #make #nation #other

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. ↗

— Voltaire

#any #dance #harm #let us #never

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's the most boring thing on Earth. I have tried and every six months I go 'right, I'm going to the gym'. Then I do it for two weeks and get so bored by it. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#boring #boring thing #bothered #earth #every

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#actually #argued #came #each #ebert