So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

and President Kennedy indicated there were one or two more than those reported.

It's those two fucken niggers!!

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

Seeing so many illustrations and reading so many testimonials to the value of Quick-Wate and Super-Protein, those two wonder-working Weider food supplements, he decided to try them and see what they could do for him.

The placement of your pool, however, will not of itself solve the two major problems of pool owning -- those that involve your social life and those pertaining to safety.

Salaries compare favorably with those paid to the first two or three levels of management.

This question is an issue because it likely divides us into two camps -- those for or against pupil assignment.

Even those who appear in only one or two scenes are full personalities, defined with economical precision.

We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.

Since the days when their two thousand pairs of skis outnumbered those assembled anywhere else in the United States, the students have stopped regarding the Olympic Ski Team as another name for their own.

Shayne told the bartender, `` Bourbon and water '', and Rourke told him, `` It's those two, all right.

There's no way to take him in now and keep those other two -- Wister and the one who hired the two of them -- from finding out about Roberts and lamming out.

But those who were in favor of the meeting felt that a frank exchange between the two men and an opportunity to size one another up would prove salutary.

In the academic world there is seldom anything so dramatic as a strike or a boycott: all that happens is that the better qualified teacher declines to gamble two or three years of his life on the chance that conditions at the Catholic institution will be as good as those elsewhere.

Therefore, the only conceivable alternatives are those represented, on the one hand, by the two at least apparently self-consistent but mutually exclusive positions of Buri and Barth and, on the other hand, by the third but really pseudo position ( analogous to a round square ) of Bultmann.

Of many passages in the book that exemplify the author's vivid style, the characterizations of the two plebeian dictators whose crimes make those of crowned autocrats pale by comparison may be selected.

The other possibility is to make arrangements for her to let out one or two of the rooms to some teacher of good family or one of those solitary old ladies that Tuxapoka is populated with -- Miss Edna Whittaker, for example.

If the demands of these two sovereigns upon his duty of allegiance come into conflict, those of the United States have the paramount authority in American law ; likewise, those of the foreign land have paramount authority in their legal system.

... an 11th-century MS ; an 11th-century Mercian poet using an archaic poetic dialect ; and 11th-century standard literary dialect that contained early and late, cross-dialectical forms, and admitted spelling variations ; and ( perhaps ) two 11th-century scribes following slightly different spelling practices.

Juno, enraged that her attempt at revenge had been frustrated, appealed to Oceanus that the two might never meet his waters, thus providing a poetic explanation for their circumpolar positions.

Independently, these two trends show the form becoming highly artificial — more like a puzzle to solve than a medium for personal poetic expression.

The two line poetic form as a closed couplet was also used by William Blake in his poem Auguries of Innocence and also by Byron ( Don Juan ( Byron ) XIII ); John Gay ( Fables ); Alexander Pope ( An Essay on Man ).

Later, two poetic restatements of these principles (" Ani Ma ' amin " and " Yigdal ") became integrated into many Jewish liturgies, leading to their eventual near-universal acceptance.

The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be -- the greater its emotional power and poetic reality.

However, in the two poetic versions of Ragnarok, he goes unmentioned ; unless one believes that he is the " Mighty One ".

Over time two poetic restatements of these principles ( Ani Ma ' amin and Yigdal ) became canonized in the Jewish prayerbook.

* España ( 1845 ) is usually considered the transitional volume between the two phases of Gautier's poetic career.

Bach's choral output reached its apex in two works: the double chorus Heilig ( Holy, Holy, Holy ) of 1776, a setting of the seraph song from the throne scene in Isaiah, and the grand cantata Die Auferstehung Jesu ( The Resurrection of Jesus ) of 1774-1782, which sets a poetic Gospel harmonization by the poet Karl Wilhelm Ramler ( 1725-1798 ).

This change is portrayed in the scene at Flint Castle during which the unity of the two bodies disintegrates and the king starts to use more poetic and symbolic language.

After becoming emotionally and intellectually involved in the Spanish Civil War, Vallejo had a final burst of poetic activity in the late 1930s, producing two books of poetry ( both published posthumously ) whose titles and proper organization remain a matter of debate: they were published as Poemas humanos and España, aparta de mí este cáliz.

These two were interested in exploring Greek poetic models, especially Sappho, an interest that Pound shared.

Taken together, these two texts comprised the Imagist programme for a return to what they saw as the best poetic practice of the past.

He held as his model, and as the highest example of poetic expression ever achieved in Italian, the work of Petrarch and Boccaccio, two 14th century writers he assisted in bringing back into fashion.

Der Rhein and Patmos, two of the longest and most densely charged of the hymns, appeared in a poetic calendar in 1808.

The foremost poets of the Jacobean era, Ben Jonson and John Donne, are regarded as the originators of two diverse poetic traditions — the Cavalier and the metaphysical

The authors assumed the ridiculousness of the work would shine through, but it was actually accepted as a legitimate poetic movement for two years.

The play, basically consisting of two long monologues, is considered one of Williams ' starkest and most poetic works.

Consonance is a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in " pitter patter " or in " all mammals named Sam are clammy ".

" It represents Eliza and Brandon, the two of them, and how the tragedy of his death separated their mortal life together ", said his mother, Linda Lee Cadwell, who described her son, like his father before him, as a poetic, romantic person.

In Ardor's Account, the spirit former known as Lucifer, who has now returned to the Kingdom of God, in solemn and poetic language, tells the story of how time began, and about the two powers of the universe, the light and the darkness.

In fact, one of the factors which enabled a continuous poetic tradition in China for more than two millenia has to do with the fact that Chinese words can be represented by their corresponding Chinese characters semi-independently of their pronunciation ( and, in fact, this extends even to their use in classical versions of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese ).

Among many others, two of the most celebrated writers of the age, Sir John Suckling and William Davenant, paid tribute to Carew, playfully admiring his poetic craftsmanship.