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• There are only two types of people in this world - the people who do the DOING, and the people who have stuff done to them.

  Cherie Currie

  People, Done, World

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• Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

  Katha Pollitt

  Husband, Cancer, Men

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• Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Running, Rivers, People

  "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Cutting, Organization, People

  Institutional Investor Magazine, September 2001.

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• I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory.

  Hank Green

  Stress, Thinking, Wish

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• The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

  J. G. Holland

  Character, Power, Hammers

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• No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.

  Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

  Book, Phrases, Use

  "The Lewis Carroll Picture Book". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, 1899.

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• From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama Appuhamy in 1594, and the other by Edirille rala in 1594-96.

  Dominicus Corea

  Mastery, Alive, Portuguese

  "A History of Sri Lanka". Book by K. M. De Silva, 1981.

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• Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces.
  Realism was the death of art.
  Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

  Arthur Wesley Dow

  Art, Space, Lines

  "Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers" by Arthur Wesley Dow, Boston, 1899.

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• When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.

  Ashot Nadanian

  Beautiful, Sports, Art

  S'pore Chess News, September 07, 2010.

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• Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.

  Narayanananda Swami.

  Love Is, Lust, Two Loves

  "A Practical Guide to Samadhi". Book by Swami Narayanananda, p. 144 (2001 edition), 1957.

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• I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.

  Walter Schellenberg

  Himmler

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.

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• Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.

  Mahmud Tarzi

  Reading, Perception, Vision

  "The Destiny of Doris: A Travel-story of Three Continents" by Julius Chambers, (Preface), 1914.

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• Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Real, Government, People

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• I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Imagination, Feelings, Directors

  Review of "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones", Salon.com, 2002.

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• The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.

  Robert A. Agresta

  Country, Party, Envy

  Inauguration Speech at the Mayor & Council Meeting, January 2009.

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• Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.

  Javad Alizadeh

  Numbers, Birth, Our Lives

  "Humor & Caricature magazine". October 1995.

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• Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Ideas, Needs, Moments

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• The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

  June Callwood

  Fifteen, Facts, American History

  June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion.

  Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

  Peace, War, Thinking

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• No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.

  Gwen Bristow

  Structure, Made, Humans

  GWEN BRISTOW (1971). “GWEN BRISTOW, TOMORROW IS FOREVER”

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• There are two kinds of trouble: The kind you have and the kind you haven't. There are but few of the first sort, but of the second there is no end.

  Sophie Irene Loeb

  Firsts, Kind, Trouble

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• When two friends part they should lock up one another's secrets, and interchange their keys.

  Owen Feltham

  Keys, Two Friends, Secret

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.114

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• there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.

  Riane Eisler

  Humanity, Males, Female

  Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (1987). “The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future”, Harpercollins

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• does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?

  Naomi Mitchison

  People, Way, Doe

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