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• Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.

  Kay Boyle

  Giving, Different, Kind

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• Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

  Sissela Bok

  Deception, Deceit, Violence

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.54, Vintage

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• Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

  Beverly Cleary

  School, Thinking, Clothes

  Beverly Cleary, Paul O. Zelinsky (1995). “Strider”

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• I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my best features and miraculously hide the extra pounds.

  Rosanne Cash

  Clothes, Mind, Facts

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• Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.

  Barbara Deming

  Self, Masculine And Feminine, Long

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

  John Stott

  Persecution, Clash, Value Systems

  John R. W. Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (1998). “The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character”, Intervarsity Press

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• [On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Country, Winter, England

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• I know a lot of people didn't expect our relationship to last - but we've just celebrated our two months' anniversary.

  Britt Ekland

  People, Lasts, Months

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• Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Long Ago, Oneness, Goal

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• Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

  Arlene Francis

  People, Kind, Thermometers

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

  Esther Forbes

  Hero, Men, History

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• A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation will throw it out of whack and shut it down. A couple can wind up paying the ultimate price for trying to have it all - losing it all.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Children, Couple, Moving

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

  Sue Grafton

  Artist, Mystery, Magician

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• Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.

  Edith Head

  Leather Pants, Clothes, Black

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• I know some good old gals in their 50s and 60s. All these women tell me, 'Forty to 50. Those are the hot times.' So far, you couldn't prove it by me. But hell, I'm only two years in.

  Lauren Hutton

  Years, Hot, Hell

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• the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

  Patricia Ireland

  Party, Evil, Choices

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• I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Book, Character

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• We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Country, Sea, World

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• The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

  Mary MacLane

  Art, Essentials, Eating

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.

  Mary MacLane

  Sex, Stupid, Taste

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.514, Petrarca Press

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• the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Joy, Trying, Good Times

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Everything edible is fried in Texas! Or it is buried in the ground to cook before it is eaten. ... Texas food should be forbidden! 'The steaks at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas!' And they are always afloat in grease. Next morning you are served a smaller steak, which serves as a platform for two fried eggs ... all of this afloat in the same grease! 'Chicken, you say? You bet! Comin' up!' Same grease! They are right. Comin' up! For hours afterwards. I couldn't believe the crust of an apple pie! Same grease!

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Morning, Believe, Heart

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• after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Political, Empowering

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• The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far as it could be from the world of spirituality, of seeking meaningful answers to the big questions of life. ... But these two worlds must flow in and out of each other, because it takes both money and spiritual understanding to sustain it. Truly speaking, what determines where our money with its awesome power will go, and what it will do for ourselves and others? If we listen, those answers come from the center of our being, from who we really are.

  Suze Orman

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Money

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• Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.

  Sara Paretsky

  Heart, Doctors, Names

  Sara Paretsky (2009). “Windy City Blues”, p.86, Dell

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