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• In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statements of political doctrine agree, while they differ in almost every possible application of their common principles.

  Harriet Martineau

  Party, Political, Principles

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• A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence in a moment of distraction from the literal reading, the way you see childhood through a child. It would take forever to tell what you see, and it would be pointless.

  Marguerite Duras

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Drama, Eye

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• Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.

  Stella Benson

  Thinking, People, Kind

  Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a dancer”

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• There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

  John Tillotson

  Human Nature, Shame, Virtue

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• Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

  John Tillotson

  Wisdom, Understanding, Propositions

  John Tillotson (1819). “The wisdom of being religious”, p.2

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• I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Writing, Blood, Hands

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Reading, Independent, Able

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• ... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Silence, Three, Surface

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Real, Two Things, Senses

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

  Laurie Colwin

  Wise, Food, Cooking

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• I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Careers, People, Kind

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• With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Years, Giving

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press

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• There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Details, Exotic

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• Prayer is naught else but a yearning of soul ... it draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up to the plenitude of God; it brings together these two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Prayer, Heart, Soul

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• The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Marriage, Player, Law

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• Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them.

  Mark Hopkins

  Men, Adequate, Unions

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• Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.

  Elizabeth I

  Strong, May, Bows

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.262, University of Chicago Press

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• The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  War, Drama, Brutality

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• Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

  Lucille Kallen

  Military, Phrases, Exclusive

  Lucille Kallen (1987). “C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness”

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• [To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?

  Joan Crawford

  Mother, Children, Restaurants

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• The day is divided into two important sections: Mealtimes and everything else.

  Merrill Markoe

  Important, Divided, Sections

  Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press

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• I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Book, Thinking, Secret

  Helen Gurley Brown (2000). “I'm Wild Again: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts”, p.113, Macmillan

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• For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Country, Writing, Data

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• Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Mean, Talking, Nuts

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.75, Vintage

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