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• There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Vanity, People, World

  Rabih Alameddine (2014). “An Unnecessary Woman”, p.214, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

  Phyllis Bentley

  Wise, Men, Pleasant

  Phyllis Bentley (1954). “The House of Moreys”

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• April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself.

  Gladys Hasty Carroll

  Girl, Past, Years

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• A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.

  Caroline Pafford Miller

  People, Goes On, Said

  Caroline Pafford Miller (1993). “Lamb in His Bosom”, Peachtree Pub Limited

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• Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Evil, Two Evils

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• From the empty grave of Jesus the enemies of the cross turn away in unconcealable dismay. Those whom the force of no logic can convince, and whose hearts are steeled against the appeal of almighty love from the cross itself, quail before the irresistible power of this simple fact. Christ has risen from the dead! After two thousand years of the most determined assault upon the evidence which demonstrates it, that fact stands. And so long as it stands Christianity, too, must stand as the one supernatural religion.

  B. B. Warfield

  Jesus, Easter, Heart

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• There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

  Jennifer Stone

  Pain, Littles, Too Much

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• Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Life, Choices, Wrong Answers

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• There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world.

  Mary Butts

  Book, Reading, Vision

  Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.30, Yale University Press

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• two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere.

  Emme

  Powerful, People, Heartache

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• The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Heart, Views, Years

  Hanan Al-Shaykh (2010). “Women of Sand and Myrrh”, p.352, A&C Black

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• Love and pain are not the same. But sometimes it feels like they should be. Love is put to test everyday. Pain is not. Yet the two of them are inseparable because true love cannot bear separation.

  Michael Robotham

  Pain, Love Is, Everyday

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• Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Two Welsh preachers were on their way to a meeting. One noticed that the other carried written outlines. 'Ah,' he remonstrated, 'you cannot carry fire on paper.' 'True,' replied his companion, 'but you can use paper to start a fire!'

  Vance Havner

  Men, Fire, Mind

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• Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.

  Thomas Lickona

  Strong, Children, Character

  Thomas Lickona (2004). “Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• If it feels like you're choosing between the lesser of two evils, don't. There is always a higher choice.

  Michael Neill

  Evil, Choices, Like You

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• I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go​, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Reading, Family And Friends

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• A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.

  James A. Belasco

  Moving, Journey, Fire

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• I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Cutting, End Times, My Own

  Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.133, Penguin UK

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• Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day or two.

  O.R. Melling

  Book, Fiction, Taste

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• I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam - mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Party, Islam, Colonialism

  Al Jazeera, March 27, 2007.

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• Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

  Karen Abbott

  Men, Spy, Female

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• Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.

  Darren Criss

  Writing, Years, Symphony

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• When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  People, Way, Different

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• I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it.

  Amber Riley

  Years, Ikea, Customers

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In life we all go through different situations that cause you to reflect. I had the opportunity to be married to a wonderful person. And for some reason two good people couldn't make a good thing work. But in life, the one thing that I love about being an artist is that you can sometimes use the pain that you go through to make beautiful things.

  Ruben Studdard

  Beautiful, Pain, Opportunity

  "Ruben Studdard, ‘American Idol’ Winner, Talks New Album, Divorce And Health". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.

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