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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em. -- Casey Stengel
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries. -- Baldwin Spencer
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. -- Samuel Johnson
We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't! -- Eddie Izzard
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books. -- John Cage
Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold. -- Zahi Hawass
You never hear in the news, 'Two hundred killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north.' -- Doug Stanhope
I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all. -- Jeanette Winterson
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive? -- Jerry Pournelle
Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up. -- Chaim Potok
Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand -- Mary Landrieu
(Georgie) Two hundred years later and it's exactly the same thing. You want to spend every single moment with your children and still have a fulfilling life at work. -- Nancy Woodruff
Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat to file out the forms or answer the phones? -- George W. Bush
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. -- Paul Tsongas
I'd put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead? -- Chris Kyle
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed. -- Ludwig von Mises
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people. -- Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases. -- John Chamberlain
Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it. -- Warren Littlefield
Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels. -- Vinod Khosla
Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples. -- Anthony Horowitz
Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred years of seeing humans at the center of existence, and now the objects take revenge, terrifyingly huge, ancient, long-lived, threateningly minute, invading every cell in our body. -- Timothy Morton
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. -- Mae West
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. -- Fred Allen
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. -- Neil Simon
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? -- Charles de Gaulle
We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour. -- Travis Barker
Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred. -- Kid Rock
We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. -- Edward Carpenter
Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years. -- Eugenie Clark
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. -- Ezra Stiles
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two. -- Daniel Boone
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour. -- Carol Bellamy
I did pretty well busking. I would play two to eight hours a day, and I could make two or three hundred an hour. -- Crystal Bowersox
I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. -- George Bentham
Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages. -- Pankaj Mishra
Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on. -- Robert Grosseteste
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them. -- Elie Wiesel
I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred and eighty-two dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, mugs and glasses. I eat over the sink. I have five sinks, two with a view. -- Rick Moranis
Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late. -- Jimmy Buffett
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. -- Melina Marchetta
Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots! -- Aldous Huxley
I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit. -- Winston Churchill
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two. -- Wislawa Szymborska
There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men. -- Pablo Escobar
Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey. -- Rumi
Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one. -- Stephen King
... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure. -- Caroline Llewellyn
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I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits. -- Pete Rose
I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time. -- Alessandro Manzoni
Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese. -- Alan Garner
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will. -- George Eliot
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. -- Thomas Carlyle
A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish. -- Lee Child
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species. -- Voltaire
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? -- Charles de Gaulle
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you. -- Justina Chen
Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul. -- Albie Sachs
Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?" "I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said. "I rest my case. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. -- Mark Twain
Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. -- Barack Obama
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? -- Peg Bracken
If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you? -- Phil Stern
I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods. -- Kelley Armstrong
Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob. -- Samuel Johnson
If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out. -- Marlon Brando
If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people. -- Jerry Spinelli
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. -- Lord Byron
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together. -- Terence McKenna
I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form. -- Winston Churchill
The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell. -- Red Smith
Hey now, none of that. You know I don't have one evil bone in my body. Only two hundred and six of them? -- Becca Fitzpatrick
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. -- Paulo Coelho
Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two -- Devdutt Pattanaik
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate. -- Jimmy Buffett
This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred. -- Mort Sahl
The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites. -- David Duke
With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise! -- Qiu Jin
Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion. -- Umberto Eco
The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue. -- Andy Borowitz
We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories. -- Orville Wright
Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing. -- Jim Rogers
A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December. -- Earl Weaver
Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet. -- Paul Theroux
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Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees. -- Voltaire
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. -- Victor Hugo
In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors. -- Stephen King
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons. -- Bartolome de las Casas
You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years. -- Bertrand Russell
Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year. -- Dave Winfield
Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks. -- Kevin Smith
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. -- Kenzaburo Oe
In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there. -- Gary Snyder
Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.""because I have the members, I have never felt lonely. -- Yoochun
Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to. -- Katha Pollitt
Only two things I know about Albuquerque - Bugs Bunny should've taken a left turn there. And give me a hundred tries, I'll never be able spell it. -- Jimmy McGill
If you want to watch me shake like the owner of aChinese buffet when two six hundred pound men walk through the doors, byall means, stick around. ~ Logan -- Jennifer Turner
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action. -- Tom Perrotta
I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun! -- Bryan Callen
Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years. -- Karen Marie Moning
This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977. -- Dan Quayle
We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems. -- Alvar Aalto
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe... -- Laurie R. King
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon. -- Qiu Jin
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Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love -- Johnny Cash
A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. -- Denis Kearney
Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy. -- Anton Chekhov
I'm always surprised when writers say they don't believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We're all worshiping something. -- Shane Jones
Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on. -- William Monahan
Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located". -- James Nicoll
For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage. -- Gerald R. Ford

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