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• The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

  Subhash Kak

  Wife, Body, Spirit

  "Prajna Sutra". Book by Subhas Kak, 2007.

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• When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.

  Abby Sunderland

  Crazy, Joy, Saws

  "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

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• Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  Giving, Enemy, Tanks

  "Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War" by David M. Glantz, (p. 228), 1989.

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• If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve. Could this rule provide a clue to the relationship between the objective measure of information, and our subjective perception of it?

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Curves, Axes, Perception

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Common Sense, Mind, Ordinary

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.204, Harvard University Press

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• Martina Navratilova said in the early '90s that Seles would inspire the players of the future to also use two-handed forehands. That didn't happen, but she is responsible for the all-out aggression with which most of the top players play. All the low trajectory shots hit with just moderate amounts of spin and traveling into the corners like heat-seeking missiles? You guessed it, Monica's to blame.

  Dave McPherson

  Player, Inspire, Use

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• A frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons make them so like, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each other, but their very face and tone of voice contract a certain analogy.

  Pope Agapetus I

  Voice, Connections, Analogies

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• American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Women, Self, Ill Health

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• Virginians were nice, they confided to each other, if caught singly. Two Virginians, of course, talked horses.

  Isabel Scott Rorick

  Horse, Nice, States

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• A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving.

  Rosa Campbell Praed

  Love, Men, Giving

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• Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.

  Tom Hoover

  Recognition, Type, Rational

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• Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Money, Want, Navigation

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• Two hands are better than four sometimes.

  Antonia White

  Hands, Four, Cooperation

  Antonia White (1979). “The Lost Traveller”

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• South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Funny, Movie, Kissing

  Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers introduction (1950)

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• As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

  Karen DeCrow

  Marxist, Grows, Thirds

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• Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.

  Maren Elwood

  Character, Mind, Pages

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• any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Years, Effort

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.10, Vintage

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• When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.

  Abigail McCarthy

  Friendship, Loyalty, Communication

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• Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Nature, Expression, Color

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• ... if you know a person really well, the truth is you can't guess how they'll act in an altogether new sort of crisis. ... intimacy creates a special environment for two people, and the deeper the intimacy, the more they both live within it, the closer its boundaries usually are, so that all that lies beyond them becomes with time not less but more and more of a mystery.

  Elizabeth Ferrars

  Lying, People, Special

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• No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.

  Carol Bly

  Ideas, Stories, Literature

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• [When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Husband, Dear, My Own

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• Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Too Late, Tongue, Saddest

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.

  Dorothy Osborne

  Marriage, Couple, Miracle

  Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• There are two types of grandmothers - the ones who feel relieved when they hear the first 'Let's go home' and the ones who feel hurt. The latter are definitely in the minority.

  Mary Margaret McBride

  Hurt, Home, Grandmother

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