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• After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Years, Dieting, Weight

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• In the '80s, I thought I'd be a success as a woman if I were the president of a billion dollar company, had a sensitive soul-mate husband, two bilingual children, buns of steels, and a compost heap. In the '90s, I pretty much feel I'm a success if I can get through the afternoon without eating a cheesecake.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Children, Husband, Soul

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• When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life And Death, Alternatives, Hesitation

  Tsunetomo Yamamoto (2001). “The Hagakure - The Way of the Samurai”, p.35, BoD – Books on Demand

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• ... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

  Margaret Halsey

  Giving, Likes, Apologetic

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!

  Anita Roddick

  Money, Way, Hard

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• There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.

  Margery Allingham

  Thinking, Men, Kind

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• One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.

  Margery Allingham

  Law, May, Policemen

  Margery Allingham (1969). “The Allingham Case-book”

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• the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.

  Margery Allingham

  Dog, Eye, Men

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.26, Ipso Books

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• no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Self, Groups, Three

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• If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government?s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes them! It is such a fraud.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mistake, Responsibility, Fighting

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• There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Ignorance, Goal, Life Is

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• [Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

  Libby Houston

  Children, Matter, Months

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• Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

  Mary Stewart

  Party, Political, Greek

  Mary Stewart (2011). “This Rough Magic”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both of which in changing form also persisted. One was the invention of gods, the other was personal efficiency in work.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Feelings, Way, Haunting

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• I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

  Greta Garbo

  Life, Movie, Actors

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• it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

  Jean Webster

  Believe, Humor, People

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.115, Jester House Publishing

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• Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Want, Three

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• it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.

  Winifred Holtby

  Passion, Independent, Fire

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• [On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

  Jessica Alba

  Daughter, Travel, Vacation

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• You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.

  Laurie Anderson

  Crazy, Eye, Light

  "Laurie Anderson". Book by RoseLee Goldberg and Laurie Anderson, 2000.

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• I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

  Mary Antin

  World, Want, Today

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• On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  People, Advice, Needs

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• there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Creativity, Creation, Difficult

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• When two kids came along, I couldnt see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.

  Peter Hambleton

  Kids, Years, Support

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• There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.

  Victor LaValle

  Fun, Purpose, Way

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