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• good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

  Mary Kay Ash

  People, Listening, Ears

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

  Ayn Rand

  Practice, Fool, Scoundrels

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.711, Penguin

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• When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.

  Sara Coleridge

  Country, Blessed, Past

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.139

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• Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope.  Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

  Maya Angelou

  Distance, Lying, Space

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• Consider the standard two-person married couple. ... They will share a VCR, a microwave, etc. This is not a matter of ideology or even personal inclination. It is practically the definition of marriage. Marriage is socialism among two people.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Couple, Vcr, People

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• two things do me in: one's chocolate cake, the other's hypocrisy.

  Roseanne Barr

  Cake, Hypocrisy, Chocolate

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• Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

  Barbara Holland

  Friendship, Summer, True Friend

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

  Freya Stark

  Impact, Order, Categories

  freya stark (1969). “the zodiac arch”

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• What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Character, Reality, Evil

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• The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sex

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.318

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• The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Believe, Thinking, Night

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• Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

  Edna O'Brien

  Talking, Evening, Ghost

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• He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full."

  Jerry Glanville

  Player, Nfl, League

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• I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

  Barry Sanders

  Football, Dream, Father

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• The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

  Freya Stark

  Years, Yesterday, Perspective

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• No two on earth in all things can agree;
  All have some darling singularity;
  Women and men, as well as girls and boys,
  In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys,
  Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things,
  Are but a better kind of toys for kings.
  In things indifferent reason bids us choose,
  Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.

  Charles Churchill

  Girl, Kings, Boys

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.95

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• Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Marijuana, Boston, Nine

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• Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

  Bette Midler

  People, Groups, Intimidating

  Bette Midler (2014). “A View from A Broad”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.

  Bette Midler

  War, Thinking, People

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• The stock market and economy are two different things.

  Milton Friedman

  Different, Economy, Two Different Things

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• Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Rivers, Boston, Cities

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”

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• There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

  Edna Ferber

  People, World, Emeralds

  Edna Ferber (2013). “So Big”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.

  Edna Ferber

  Moon, Four, Nine

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• Two people look at the same Exercise above: One sees "Opportunity Is Nowhere" and one sees "Opportunity Is Now Here."

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Exercise, Opportunity, People

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• When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

  Isaac Watts

  Mind, Three, Dry

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